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[ SIDNEY. THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE’S ARCADIA. FIRS? 
EDITION. SEE No. 538.] 


No. 792 


A COLLECTION 


OF 


Creesstvelp Rare Books 
Letters and PMluminated Manuscripts 


EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS 
RARE AMERICANA 
MASTERPIECES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS WITH COLORED PLATES 
HANDSOME BINDINGS 
ASSOCIATION BOOKS 
FIRST EDITIONS 


TO BE SOLD 


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FOREWORD. 


This catalogue possesses exceptional interest to lovers 
of rare books and manuscripts. No other collection of- 
fered at public sale in America has contained so large a 
proportion of excessively rare items; almost every book 
will arrest the attention of the collector and there are 
practically no unimportant ones described in the catalogue. 


MANUSCRIPTS OF THE XTH TO THE XVIIITH CENTURIES, some 
superbly illuminated in gold and colors including The Con- 
fessions of St. Augustinus of the Xth-XIth Centuries; a 
Manuscript Cicero of the XIVth Century; Five Manuscript 
Hours of the Virgin, with from eight to nineteen Miniatures; 
an Armenian Manuscript of the Gospels in a wrought Silver 
Binding; an [lluminated Spanish Manuscript of the Seven- 
teenth Century; an Illuminated Persian Manuscript, and 
others. 


EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, including some of the famous 
Monuments of Typography, such as St. Augustinus from 
the Jenson Press circa 1475, never before offered for sale 
by auction in this country; a copy of Thomas de Aquinas 
from Ulrich Zell’s Press; the Aldine Poliphilus, Euripides, 
Homer, and Livy; the first dated edition of Livy from the 
Press of Wendelin of Spire, 1470; Plutarch 1471, and 
Donatus’ Commentaries on Terence from the same press; 
the first Latin Bible printed in Venice in 1475; the Elzevir 
Pliny bound by Duseuil; Virgil, Cicero and others from 


that Press; the Horace of Jacobus Rubeus 1474; Thucydides 
1482 and other examples of Early Presses. - 


MASTERPIECES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, including First 
Editions of the Most Eminent English Authors in Poetry 
and Prose from the XVIth to the XVIIIth Centuries, in- 
eluding Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘* Arcadia,’’ first edition of 
1590, never before offered for sale by auction in this coun- 
try; More’s Dialoge of Comfort, 1553, and North’s Plutarch, 
1579, of both of which the same may be said. A Series of 
all the known variations of the early editions of Chapman’s 
Homer from 1598 to 1625; First Edition of all three parts 
of Robinson Crusoe, 1700; the first uncut copy ever offered 
for sale by auction in this country of Sterne’s Sentimental 
Journey; Swift’s Gulliver, first issue of 1726; Ben Jonson’s 
Horace, 1640; Bunyan’s Holy War, 1682; Cope’s ‘*¢ Anni- 
bal and Scipio,’? 1590; a Mirrour for Magistrates, 1587; 
Painter’s Palace of Pleasure; two rare books of Miles 
Coverdale of 1574 and 1579; Crashawe’s ‘‘ Steps to the 
Temple,’’ 1648; Erasmus’ Praise of Folie, 1556; Forrest’s 
Perfite Looking Glasse, 1580; Gesta Romanorum, 1493; 
Holyday’s Horace, 1652; Milton’s Works, First Editions, 
and many others. 


AMERICANA OF THE UTMOST RARITY, Monardes’ ‘“‘Joyful 
Newes Out Of the New Found World,” 1580; Cotton’s 
Bloudy Tenant Washed, 1647; Increase Mather’s Indian 
Wars, 1676; Rochefort’s Histoire Naturelle, containing a 


description of Pennsylvania in 1681; Las Casas’ Spanish 
Colonies, 1583; Frizon’s Corollaria Poetica, 1665, a hitherto 


unrecorded item of Americana; Horsmanden’s Journal, 
describing the New York Negro Plot, 1744; Ordinance of 
1787 for the government of the North-West Territory; the 
only copy traced of Commotions in America, 1780; Brad- 
ford Imprints of 1713; Indian Songs of Peace, New York, 
1752; McKenney & Hall’s Indian Tribes in the original 


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parts; a very rare Roger Williams Tract, 1652; Hawthorne’s 
Mosses from an Old Manse, in paper wrappers, and others 
of equal value. 


ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, MANY WITH COLORED PLATES, a re- 
markable collection, of which several are here first offered 
in an American Auction Room, including a complete set of 
Punch’s Pocket Book, with the rare 1843 volume; the 
British Don Juan; Dr. Syntax in London, in the original 
parts; a complete set of the Syntax Tours, in boards, uncut; 
Studies from the Stage; Hefner-Alteneck’s Costume of the 
Middle Ages, with the coloring in the best state; Busby’s 
Costumes of the Lower Orders of London; 56 Miniatures of 
18th Century Costume; Books Illustrated by the Cruik- 
shanks, The Humourist, Comic Almanac complete with 
India proof plates; Life in Paris, on Large Paper; West- 
macott’s English Spy; Rowlandson’s English Dance of Life, 
Dance of Death; Gambado’s Academy for Grown Horse- 
men; the Annals of Sporting; rare Pierce Egan items, etc. 


ASSOCIATION BOOKS of the highest degree of interest and 
rarity. Browning’s Proof Copies of The Ring and the 
Book, and Colombe’s Birthday; a set of the First Issues 
of Bells and Pomegranates, inscribed by Browning to 
W. J. Fox; Three Sets of Galley Proofs of Sir Walter 
Seott’s History of Scotland, and the Galley Proofs of his 
** Journal,’’ each with hundreds of manuscript annotations; 
Piers Plowman, 1561, from the Library of William Morris; 
Walton’s copies of his own works and of Ben Jonson’s 
Vulcan, with his marginal notes; Tennyson’s copy of his 
own Poems, 1830, with manuscript corrections, and his copy 
of Thucydides; Wordsworth’s Poems, inscribed to his 
daughter; Horne’s Napoleon extended to six volumes, with 
nearly 1,400 prints and letters; Boileau’s copy of Horace, 
with his manuscript notes; Dickens’s ‘‘ Pickwick Papers,” 
with his presentation inscription to George Thompson; the 


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Accordion played by Joseph Grimaldi; Coleridge’s Sibylline 
Leaves, the gift of Charles Lamb, with the manuscript of a 
Sonnet; Stevenson’s copy of Deacon Brodie and a presenta- 
tion copy of Catriona; a Thackeray manuscript and several 
books from his library, some with annotations; a presenta- 
tion copy of Meredith’s ‘‘ Shaving of Shagpat,”’ ete. 


BOOKS IN HANDSOME BINDINGS, including an unusual 
number of famous Historical and Royal Examples, some 
bearing the Arms of Queen Elizabeth, James I., Charles i, 
Louis XV. and his Queen; the manuscript transcript of 
letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, bound in fine vellum; one 
of the presentation copies of Charles I.’s Hikon Basilike, 
by his son, Charles II.; Queen Anne’s Book of Common 
Prayer, 1710, in contemporary morocco, with painted fore- 
edge; a Venetian Embroidered Binding of 1754, from the 
Contarini Family; one of the most elaborate examples of 
the Guild of Women Binders, and Boetius, bound by Roger 
Payne. 


ENGLISH 18TH AND {9TH CENTURY BOOKS, including a re- 
markable collection of books by or relating to Dickens, 
first edition of The Strange Gentleman, in the original 
wrappers; Pickwick, in parts, with original drawings; 
Sketches by Boz with Series Two in green cloth; first 
editions of the Vicar of Wakefield, the Deserted Village, 
Retaliation and other Goldsmith items; first edition of Dr. 
Johnson’s Dictionary, Lives of the Poets, in original boards, 
and the Vanity of Human Wishes; Keats’ Endymion, 
Poems and Lamia, all in original boards uncut; Tales from 
Shakespeare, Elia, Dramatic Poets, in boards, and other 
rare Charles and Mary Lamb items; the writings of Shel- 
ley, including Prometheus Unbound, in boards uncut, the 
Cenci, the Masque of Anarchy, etc. ; an important collection 
of Pope, including first editions of the Rape of the Lock 
and an Essay on Criticism; Rossetti’s Germ and Sister 


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Helen; The Pentland Rising, in wrappers, Thomas Steven- 
son, Civil Engineer, and other rare Stevenson items; the 
Suppressed edition of Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads; 
first editions of Thackeray, original drawings by him, 
books with his manuscript notes; and other very desirable 
items. 


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[ALDINE Press. PoLIPHILUS. First EDITION. SEE No. 6.] 


No. 792 


Q4 Small Collection 


OF 


Creesstuelp Rare Books 


1. CKERMAN’S MICROCOSM OF LONDON, with 
colored ptates; The Microcosm of London, a 

series of 104 splendid COLORED PLATES by Rowlandson and 
Pugin (with full descriptive Text), comprising Views 
and Interiors of the most noted Fashionable Places of In- 
terest and Amusement, and including the Royal Academy, 
British Museum, Sadler’s Wells, Christie’s Auction Rooms, 
Gaming House, Newgate, ete. 3 vols, royal 4to, newly and 
handsomely bound in half red straight grained morocco, 
gilt backs and tops. Lond. [1808] 


* A FINE COPY OF WHAT MUST ALWAYS RANK ONE OF THE 
GREATEST OF COLORED PLATE BOOKS. 


AESOP’S FABLES AND GAY’S FABLES, STOCKDALE’S FINE EDI- 
TIONS ON LARGE PAPER, HANDSOMELY BOUND. 


2. ANSOP. The Fables of Alsop, with a Life of the Au- 
thor. Containing 112 plates, by eminent engravers (some of 
which are by WILLIAM BLAKE), 2 vols. imp. 8vo, Lond., 
John Stockdale, 4th June, 1793; also FABLES BY JOHN Gay, 
with a Life of the Author, and embellished with seventy 
plates by eminent engravers (some of which are by WIL- 
LIAM BLAKE), 2 vols. imp. 8vo, Lond., printed for John 
Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793. Together 4 vols. imp. 8vo, 
newly and beautifully FULL BOUND IN LIGHT POLISHED 
CALF, RICHLY TOOLED BACKS, and inside borders, by Mor- 
RELL. Lond. 1793 


* AN EXCEEDINGLY HANDSOME SET ON LARGE PAPER. THE 
DILLMAN SET (full morocco, gilt tops, uncut), THE ONLY OTHER 
SET ON LARGE PAPER THAT HAS BEEN OFFERED AT AUCTION 
FOR MANY YEARS, REALIZED TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR 
DOLLARS. 


3. AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON). The Writ- 
ings of Ainsworth. Nwmerous illusts. 16 vols. 8vo, newly 
bound in half red polished calf, gilt tops. Lond., n. d. 


* A VERY CHOICE SET of the uniform library edition of Ains- 
worth’s writings, published by Messrs. Routledge. 


PUBLICATIONS FROM THE FAMOUS PRESS OF ALDUS. 


A Collection of the highest Value and Importance, in- 
cluding Poliphilus (unmutilated), Euripides, Homer, 
Greek Grammar, Livy, and other Scarce Items. 


4, ALDINE PRESS.—GaAzA THEODORUS. INTRODUCTIO 
GRAMMATICA. In hoc uolumine haee insunt. Theodori 
Introductiuz Grammatices libri quatuor. Eiusdem de 
Mensibus opusculum sane quam pulechrum. Apollonii 
grammatici de constructione libri quatuor. Herodianus de 
numeris. FIRST EDN. Ornamental woodcut headings and 
initials. Folio, old mottled calf, dark green edges. 

_Venetiis, in edibus Aldi Romani, 1495 
*THE SECOND PRINTED GREEK GRAMMAR, and THE SECOND 
DATED BOOK FROM THE ALDINE PRESS. According to several 
bibliographical authorities, including Dibdin, Renouard. Bru- 
net, etc., THIS VOLUME IS OF THE GREATEST RARITY. A VERY 
FINE AND LARGE COPY, PROBABLY ONE OF THE FINEST IN EXIST- 
ENCE. From the Courbonne, MARQUIS DE MORANTE and Stuart 
Libraries, with book-plates. Printed entirely in Greek, with 
the exception of the title, the preface and the colophon; 198 
unnumbered leaves, signatures a-l, a-b, A-M. Renouard, p. 2; 
Hain-Copinger, 7500; Proctor, 5548. 


5. ALDINE PRESS.—Jamblichus. Index eorum, que 
in hoe libro habentur. Iamblichus de mysteriis Aigyptio- 
rum, Chaldzorum, Assyriorum. Proclus in Platonicum 
Alcibiadem de anima, atque demone. Proclus de sacri- 
ficio et magia. Porphyrius de divinis atque dzemonibus. 
Synesius Platonicus de somniis. Psellus de demonibus. 
Rubricated throughout and initials neatly painted in red 
and blue. Roman character; 185 unnumbered leaves and 
a blank; 37 lines to the page. Folio, CONTEMPORARY ENG- 
LISH BINDING in bevelled oak boards covered with ealf, 
panelled sides with blind toolings, including the Tudor 
Rose, (worn and mended). Hain-Copinger, 9358; Proctor, 
0559; Renouard, p. 13. Venetiis, in sedibus Aldi, 1497 


* THE RARE FIRST EDITION, and one of the most beautiful 
specimens from the press of the great Aldus. A VERY FINE 
AND LARGE COPY, with the leaf of register and last blank. In 
the same volume is bound ‘‘ Enarrationes Allegoricae Fabula- 
rum Fulgentii Placiadis,” Mediolani; U. Scinzenzeler, 1498. 
This last work is somewhat wormed, 


THE MOST FAMOUS BOOK FROM THE PRESS OF ALDUS. 


6. ALDINE PRESS.—PoOLIPHILI HYPNEROTOMACHIA. 
Roman character: 234 unnumbered leaves, 39 lines to 
the page; Signat. 1, a-F. Fol. 1 r: HYPNEROTOMACHIA 
POLIPHILI, VBI HV | MANA OMNIA NON NISISOMNIVM | ESSE- 
DOCET. ATQVE OBITER | PLVRIMA SCITV SANE | QVAM DIGNA 
COM | MEMORAT. Tol. 234 r., last line: Venetiis mense de- 


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eembri. M.ID. in edibus Aldi Manutii, accuratissime. Fol. 
284 v., blank. With 192 woodcuts remarkably beautiful in 
design and execution, probably AFTER THE DESIGNS OF 
GENTILE BELLINI. Folio, full dark brown levant morocco 
extra, gilt tooled interlaced geometrical borders on the 
sides, the panels embellished with gilt arabesque work, all 
to a Grolieresque pattern, gilt tooled back and inside bor- 


ders, gilt edges, by F. BEDFORD. Venetiis, Aldus, 1499 


* FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOODCUT 
BOOKS, AND UNDOUBTEDLY THE MASTERPIECE OF THE SCHOOL 
OF VENETIAN ART OF WOOD ENGRAVING. The question as to 
who was the creator of the woodcuts in the Venetian Hyp- 

‘ nerotomachia, has been frequently discussed with great variety 
of opinion, and they have been ascribed to Mantegna, Gentile 
Bellini, Giovanni Bellini, his brother, Botticelli and even to 
Raffaello Sanzio. Of all these conjectures, perhaps the assign- 
ment to one of the Bellini brothers comes nearest to the truth, 
as it is an undoubted fact that the Poliphilo master belongs to 
the Bellini school. The Venetian origin of the book, and the 
signature ‘‘b” which appears on two of the cuts near the 
beginning, seem also to indicate Bellini. 

This remarkable book was written by Francesco Columna or 
Colonna (born about 1433), who afterwards becamea Dominican 
monk, and died in the monastery of San Giovanni e San Paola 
at Venice about 1527. It is a visionary and allegorical romance, 
based upon the love of the author for ‘‘ Ippolita.”” The hopes 
of the lover having been shattered by Ippolita’s entrance into 
a convent, he sought to immortalize the passion in a mystical 
romance. Under the name of ‘ Polia,” the lady plays a part 
similar to that of Dante’s Beatrice, and drives the author 
through a dream-land, in which his appellation is ‘‘ Poliphilo,” 
signifying Polia’s lover. Even the introduction of the book is 
borrowed from the Divina Commedia. The narrator wanders 
through a wood, is overcome by weariness, falls asleep and in 
a dream sees the Hypnerotomachia. The imaginary land 
through which Poliphilo and Polia wander, is the region of 
Classic Art, as it seemed to the minds of the 15th Century. It 
is the architecture of antiquity which forms the chief attrac- 
tion of their quest. 

THE CLEAR AND SIMPLE STYLE [OF ‘THE ILLUSTRATIONS HAR- 
MONIZES PERFECTLY WITH THE ELEGANT ROMAN TYPE OF THE 
TEXT, AND THE BOOK IS INDISPUTABLY ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTI- 
FUL THAT HAS EVER BEEN ISSUED FROM THE PRESS OF ALDUS. 
A VERY FINE AND LARGE COPY, WITH A PERFECT WOODCUT REP- 
RESENTING THE SACRIFICE TO PRIAPUS, THIS PLATE BEING, IN 
NEARLY EVERY INSTANCE, MISSING OR DEFACED. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


%. ALDINE PRESS.—StatTius. Sylvarum libri quinque. 
Thebaidos libri duodecim. -Achilleidos duo. 8vo, old red 
straight-grained morocco gilt, with the Aldine anchor 
stamped in gold on the centre of both covers, gilt gaufré 
edges. Venetiis, in Academia Aldi Romani, 1502 


* First ALDINE EDITION, ‘‘ of which it is difficult to find fine 
and perfect copies” (RENOUARD), the ‘‘ Ortographia et Flexus 
dictionum,” which is sometime bound at the beginning, being 
often missing. THE SYSTON PARK COPY, SAID IN THAT CATA- 
LOGUE TO HAVE BEEN BOUND BY ROGER PAYNE, IN THE FINEST 
CONDITION. 2 


8. ALDINE PRESS.—EURIPIDIS trageedize septendecim, 
ex quib. queedam habent commentaria. et sunt he. Hecuba, 
Orestes, ete. (greece). 2 vols. 8vo, old calf, red edges. 

Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1503 
* THE EXTREMELY RARE First EDITION OF EURIPIDES and 
very valuable on account of the text. Although in the title- 
page it is said to contain only seventeen plays, it will be found 
on inspecting the work that there are eighteen; for at the end 
of the second part the tragedy of ‘‘ Hercules Furens” is an- 
nexed, Bindings somewhat rubbed, and slightly worn in the 
backs, otherwise A FINE AND TALL COPY of this desirable speci- 
men from the press of the great Aldus. 


9, ALDINE PRESS.—GREGORIUS NAZANZENUS. Opus- 
cula & Carmina, cum Versione latina. FIRST EDN. Printed 
in Greek and Latin. 4to, old vellum. 

Venetiis, ex Aldi Academia, 1504 


* A VERY FINE AND LARGE Copy of this rare specimen from 
the Aldine press, and EXTREMELY RARE, WHEN IT HAS AT THE 
END, ASIN THIS. COPY, THE TWO LEAVES containing the correc- 
tions of the text, which are missing in nearly all copies. Re- 
nouard (p. 46) gives a lengthy description of the peculiarities 
of arrangement, etc., of this curious book. 


10. ALDINE PRESS.—HomERwS. Ilias, Ulyssea, Batrach- 
omyomachia. Hymni XX XII (cum vita Homeri ex Herodoto, 
Dione et Plutarcho). Greece. With numerous finely painted 
and aluminated ornamental initials. 2 vols. 8vo, full green 
straight-grained morocco extra, richly gilt, gilt backs, gilt 
edges, in the manner of Roger Payne (several pp. slightly 
water-stained). Venetiis: Aldus, 1504 


* First ALDINE EDITION and second edition of Homer, 
printed after the celebrated one of Florence, 1488. On the first 
page of the text, both of the ‘‘ Ilias” and of the ‘‘ Ulyssea,” are 
painted the arms of JEAN GROLIER, accompanied by another 
emblematic escutcheon, with the legend AtQVE DIFFICVLTER; 
the inscription surrounding the arms read: M. IEHAN GROLIER 
CONSELLER DV ROY TRESORIER G. AN LAD. DEM. (Messire Jehan 
Grolier Conseillier du Roi Tresorier General en le Duché de 
ee From the Fountaine Library sold at Sotheby’s, June, 
1902. 


11. ALDINE PRESS.—Perottus (Nicolaus). Cornucopize 
sive lingue latine commentarii diligentissime recogniti 
atque ex archetypo emendati, ete. Folio, old calf gilt 
(neatly rebacked). : 

Venice, in edibus Aldi et Andres Soceri, 1517 


* Fine copy of this rare edition. 


A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ALDINE LIVY, BOUND 
BY LEWIS. 


12. ALDINE PRESS.—Livius (Titus). Ex XIIII. T. 
Livii Decadibvs. Prima, Tertia, Quarta, in qua preter 
fragmenta III, et X libri, que in Germania nuper reperta, 
hic etiam continentur, multaadulterina expunsimus, multa. 
uera recepimus, que in alijs non habentur. Epitome sin- 

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gulorum librorum XIIII Decadum. Historia omnium XIIII 

Decadum in compendium redacta ab L. Floro. Polybij 

lib. v de rebus Romanis latinitate donati a Nicolao Perotto. 

Index copiosissimus rerum omnium memorabilium. 5 vols. 

8vo, full brown panelled morocco extra, gilt, gilt edges, 
vellum fly-leaves, by C. LEWIS. 

Venetiis in zedibus Aldi et Andres Soceri, 1518-33 

* First ALDINE EDITION. RARE, AND VERY RARE WHEN 

COMPLETE IN 5 VOLS., as the present set. The fifth volume, 

having been issued so many years after the others, was not 

added to most of the copies of the work. IT CONTAINS THE 

BOOKS OF THE FIFTH DECADE, OF WHICH THE EXISTENCE WAS 

UNKNOWN WHEN THE EDITION WAS BEGUN. A REMARKABLY 

FINE AND TALL SET, with which the most fastidious collector of 


rare and valuable books cannot justly find fault. From the 
Knox and the Slade collections. 


ALDINE PHITARCH BOUND BY DEROME, 


13. ALDINE PRESS.—Plutarchi que vocantur Paralella. 
Hoc est vite illustrium virorum greci nominis ac latini 
(grace). Aldine anchor on title. Folio, old French binding 
in red levant morocco gilt, gilt inside borders and edges. 
by DEROME (IN THE FINEST CONDITION). 

Venetiis, in edibus Aldi et Andre Soceri, 1519 


*First and only Aldine Edition of Plutarch’s Lives, and 
second in order of date, but the one to be preferred. A VERY 
FINE AND LARGE COPY OF THIS RARE BOOK FROM THE GAIGNAT 
AND WODHULL LIBRARIES, Mr. Wodhull having bought it at the 
Gaignat sale in 1769, as proved by inscription on fly-leaf. WE 
BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COPY EVER OFFERED 
FOR SALE IN AMERICA OR ABROAD, | 


ALDINE OVID BOUND BY DEROME. 


14. ALDINE PRESS.—Ovipvus. Opera. Ruled through- 
out with red lines. 3 vols. 8vo, old French ted morocco, 
gilt triple line on the sides, gilt backs, gilt edges, by DE- 
ROME, with the Aldine anchor, stamped in gold on the 
front and lower covers (IN THE FINEST CONDITION). Venetiis, 
in edibus heredum Aldi, et Andres Asulani Soceri, 1533-34 

* VERY RARE. AN UNUSUALLY LARGE AND FINE COPY, and 
UNIQUE IN A DEROME BINDING IN THE MOST PERFECT CONDI- 
TION. Bound up at the end of Volume II are the POEMS ON 
HUNTING AND FISHING issued from the Aldine Press in 1534, 
containing, among others, GRATIUS, NEMESIANUS, and a FRAG- 
MENT OF OVID, which were here published for the first time. 


FROM THE SYSTON PARK LIBRARY, with bookplate in each 
volume, 


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- corrigente Paulo Manutio, Aldi Filio. 3 vols. 8vo, magnifi- 

cently bound in full brown levant morocco, super extra, 

the sides and back tooled and gilt to a Grolieresque pat- 

tern, vellum fly-leaves, edges gilt on the rough, by F. BED- 

FORD. Venetiis, 1550 
* A very fine copy of this handsome publication. 


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16. ALDINE PRESS.—Marci Antonii Nattze Astensis de 
Deo libri XV. Small folio, full green straight-grained 
morocco gilt, with the Aldine anchor stamped in gold on 
the centre of both covers, vellum fly-leaves, gilt edges. 
From the Syston Park Library, with bookplate. ; 
Venetiis, 1559 


AN UNUSUALLY CHOICE COLLECTION OF SPORTING 
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‘Annals of Sporting’’ (complete set), ‘‘Real Life in 
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Ages of the Horse,’’ etc. 


17%. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken (Henry). How 
to Qualify for A Meltonian. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. A 
series of 6 highly spirited COLORED PLATES depicting ‘*‘How 
to go to Cover,” ‘* How to appear at Cover,”’ ‘* How to take 
your leap,” ‘‘ How to take the lead,” etc. Oblong folio, 
newly bound in three-quarter crimson crushed levant mo- 
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S. and J. Fuller at their Sporting Gallery, July, 1819. 


* FINE copy. The plates are ‘most suitable for framing pur- 
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18. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. [Egan (Pierce).] Real 
Life in London: or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob 
Tallyho, Esq., and his Cousin the Hon. Tom Dashall, 
through the Metropolis, exhibiting a living Picture of the 
Fashionable Characters, Manners and Amusements in High 
and Low Life. By an Amateur. 2 vols. 8vo, full polished 
crimson calf, extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1821-22 


* FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Embellished with 
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This copy CONTAINS TWO ADDITIONAL PLATES THAT ARE NOT 
MENTIONED IN THE LIST OF PLATES, (1) ‘‘ Catching a Charley 
napping,” and (2) ‘‘ St. George’s Day.” 


THE GENUINE FIRST EDITION, WITH ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 
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19. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Real Life in Ireland; 
or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and 
Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney of Brian 
Boru, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Sir Shawn O’Dogherty, 
exhibiting a Real Picture of Characters, Manners, etc., in 


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High and Low Life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland. 
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* Real Life in Ireland is one of the most spirited productions 
of its kind, of which several were issued in the early part 
of the XIXth Century, notably Egan’s Life in London. The 
colored plates are full of life and dash, and depict drinking 
scenes, duels, processions, etc., illustrating the many phases 
of high and low life in Ireland at the period. The plates are of 
interest from another standpoint, as they depict the costumes 
of the times. Some contain portraits, three of them having 
portraits of George IVth, illustrative of his visit to Dublin. 
The work was printed on a poor grade of paper, and conse- 
quently is nearly always in poor condition, this copy, however, 
being a notable exception. 


20. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken (Henry). Scraps 
from the Sketch Book of Henry Alken. THE VERY RARE FIRST 
EDITION. Comprising a series of FORTY-TWO FINELY COL- 
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graved by himself. 4to, half red morocco, gilt edges (title- 


page cut rather close). Lond.: Thomas McLean, 1821 
* A FINE ITEM, THE GREAT ARTIST HERE DEPICTS SOME OF HIS 
BEST WORK, 


21. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Annals of 
Sporting and Fancy Gazette: a Magazine entirely appro- 
priated toSporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits, contain- 
ing every thing worthy of Remark on 


Hunting Cocking Cricket 

Shooting Pugilism Billiards 

Coursing Wrestling Sailing, 
ete. etc. ete. 


With the extensive and COMPLETE SERIES OF FINELY COL- 
ORED AND PLAIN PLATES by Alken, Cruikshank and others. 
13 vols 8vo, half polished calf, gilt tooled backs, with 
sporting devices, double lettering pieces, gilt edges, by 
RIVIERE. Lond. 1822-28 


* A VERY FINE SET OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SPORTING 
BOOKS, OF WHICH COMPLETE SETS ARE EXTREMELY RARE, 
ONLY TWO SETS HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY SOLD AT AUCTION 
IN THIS COUNTRY. 

The title to Vol. XIII reads January to June, 1828. By the 
end of May, however, the subscribers to the work had so fallen 
away, that the publishers decided to discontinue the work with 
the June number, of which but few were issued, and which 
rarely appears in offered sets, the above being no exception to 
this rule. 

THE SET IN THE HERMANN SALE SOLD IN THESE ROOMS FOR 
FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS, 


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22. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken (Henry). Rudi- 
ments for Drawing the Horse; Sketches from Nature, and 
drawn on stone by Henry Alken. THE VERY RARE FIRST 
EDITION. Oomprising a series of TWENTY-SIX FINELY COL- 
ORED PLATES, by Henry Alken. Oblong folio, balf red 


morocco, gilt. Lond.: S. and J. Fuller, 1822 
* A FINE COPY, CONTAINING SOME EXCELLENT DRAUGHTS- 
MANSHIP, 


23, ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken (Henry). Shoot- 
ing; or, One Day’s Sport of Three Real Good Ones, However 
Ignorant of Sporting Rules. THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST 
EDITION. With the series of SIX SPIRITED AND FINELY COL- 
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red morocco, gilt edges. Lond.: Thomas M’Lean, 1823 


* OF THE ALKEN COLORED BOOKS THIS IS ONE OF THE RAREST 
TO PROCURE IN DESIRABLE CONDITION. 


24. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken (Henry). 
Hunting Discoveries. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. A series 
of TWELVE FINELY COLORED PLATES, dlustrating the life of 
a horseman, and including ‘‘ Doing the inand out,’’ ** Put- 
ting your horse to a brook,” ‘‘ Topping a stone wall and 
coming well into the next field,” ** Going at a swishing pace,”’ 
etc., etc. Oblong 4to, new three-quarter crimson crushed 
levant morocco, lettered on the side, by RIVIERE. Lond.1825 


* A highly characteristic and well executed set of sporting 
plates, originally issued without title. 


25. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken (Henry). The 
Seven Ages of the Horse. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Con- 
taoning SEVEN FINELY COLORED PLATES BY ALKEN, and 
depicting ‘‘As first the foal, frisking and playing by the 
old dam’s side,’’ ‘* And then the colt, with breakeron back,”’ 
etc.... ‘* Then the Hunter, his sinews stronger grown, 
and dock of Melton,” etc., etc. Oblong folio, newly bound 
in three-quarter crimson crushed levant morocco, lettered 
on the side, gilt top, by RIVIERE. Lond.: S. and J. Fuller, 
at the Sporting Gallery, Jan., 1825. 

* FINE COPY. Contains particularly rich impressions of the 
colored plates. 


26. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken (Henry). A 
Steeple Chase. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio, 
newly bound in three-quarter crimson crushed levant mo- 
rocco, lettered on the side, gilt top, by RIVIERE. 

Lond.: 8. and J. Fuller, January, 1827 
* FINE COPY, with rich impressions of SIx FINELY COLORED 


SPORTING PLATES BY ALKEN, depicting ‘‘ The Start, off they go 
for the White for choice,” ‘* Getting over an Old blind road- 


way, and doing tt well, even betting,” ‘‘ Crossing a deep ravine, 
dangerous to pass, with 6 to 2 on white,” ete., ete. 
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2%. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Hinds (John). The 
Groom’s Oracle and Pocket Stable-Directory .. . Dialogues 
between two Grooms engaged in training Horses to their 
Work. Small 8vo, original half cloth and boards, with 
label, uncut. Lond. 1829 


* FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Contains a 
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Grooms Exercising,” showing six horses in course of training, 
their riders in the picturesque costumes of the period. 


28. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. [SURTEES (ROBERT 
SmiTH).| The Analysis of the Hunting Field: being a Series 
of Sketches of the Principal Characters that compose one, 
the whole forming a slight Souvenir of the Season, 1845-6. 
Royal 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in crimson crushed 
levant morocco, with sporting tooling on back (foxes’ heads, 
etc), gilt top, OTHER EDGES UNCUT, and with the advertise- 
ments (an unusual feature) and cloth covers bound in. by 
RIVIERE. Lond. 1846 


* UNUSUALLY FINE COPY OF THIS RARE SPORTING VOLUME 
IN FIRST EDITION, containing SIX RICHLY COLORED SCENES, ALSO 
COLORED TITLE, all of which depict sporting scenes, AND ALL BY 
HENRY ALKEN. THIS COPY CONTAINS PARTICULARLY FINE 
IMPRESSIONS OF THE PLATES. 

UNCUT COPIES ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE. 

The authorship was for many years in dispute, and it is only 
in recent years that the proper credit has been given to R. S. 
Surtees, mainly through the efforts of C. F. Underhill, the 
author of several works of sport. 


29. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. APPERLEY (C. J.). 
Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq., with 
Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccen- 
trie and Extravagant Exploits. By ‘‘Nimrod.” Royal 
Svo, newly and beautifully bound in FULL BLUE CRUSHED 
LEVANT MOROCCO, with richly tooled back and inside 
borders, gilt edges, with original cloth covers, and adver- 
tisements bound in, BY RIVIERE. Lond.: Ackermann, 1851 


* UNUSUALLY TALL AND CHOICE COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION, 
CONTAINING EIGHTEEN FULL-PAGE COLORED SPORTING PLATES 
BY HENRY ALKEN. This issue contains, here first printed, the 
Memoir of the Author. 


30. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Ackermann’s Sporting 
Seraps. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, containing the COM- 
PLETE SERIES OF THIRTY-SIX RICHLY COLORED AQUATINTS 
by Henry Alken and others. Oblong 4to, handsomely 
bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco, with gold 
ornaments on back and sides, gilt edges, with original 
leather label bound in. [Lond.: Ackerman, 1850, ete. | 


* FINE IMPRESSIONS OF THE ALKEN PLATES, twenty-seven out 
of the thirty-six being by him. It includes the best plates from 
Ackermann’s famous publications, selected from the Deer- 
Stalking-Scraps, Shooting-Scraps, Fishing-Scraps (a fine plate 
of trout fishing), Racing, Coursing, Hunting, Yachting and 
other ‘‘ Scraps.” 


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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST POETICAL ANTHOLOGY OF 
ENGLISH LITERATURE. 


31. [ALLOT (ROBERT).] England’s Parnassus: or the 
choycest Flowers of our moderne Poets, with their poeticall 
comparisons. Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, 
Pallaces, Mountaines, Groves, Seas, Spring, Rivers, etc., 
whereunto are annexed Other various discourses, both pleas- 
ant and profitable. FIRST EDN. 12mo, full levant mo- 
rocco extra, gold lined sides and back, gilt edges, by 
RIVIERE. Lond., for N. L. C. B. and T. H., 1600 


* THE FIRST POETICAL ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 
AND THE MOST VALUABLE. This extremely rare selection from 
SHAKESPEARE and other poets has enabled editors to assign 
to their true authors various pieces not otherwise known. It 
has also preserved numerous verses of the Elizabethan and 
pre-Elizabethan period nowhere else to be met with, and the 
names of poets who are not otherwise known in literary history 
than by their mention in England’s Parnassus. IT CONTAINS 
NOT LESS THAN 79 EXTRACTS FROM SHAKESPEARE ALONE. A 
few blank margins repaired, otherwise a fine and large copy. 
The Poor copy sold last season for $210.00. 


32. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. GILLESPIE (ALEXAN- 
DER). An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, 
from its original institution down to the present era. 
Front. Ato, boards, uncut. Birmingham, 1803 


* RARE. A large portion of the work is devoted to a detailed 
record of engagements in the American War of Independence, 
and is of value, as presenting the views of participants rather 
than historians. 


33. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Murray (JAmmEs). An 
Impartial History of the present War with America, con- 
taining an Account of its Rise and Progress, the Political 
Springs thereof, with its various successes and disappoint- 
ments on both sides. With 23 fine engraved portraits, 
including Washington, Franklin, Arnold, etc., and a map. 
2 vols. 8vo, contemporary sheep. 

Lond.: For R. Baldwin, n. d. [ea. 1803] 


* RARE, Contains fine impressions of the portraits. 


COMPLETE SET ON LARGE PAPER. 


34. AMERICAN STATESMAN SERIES. Edited by 
John T. Morse, Jr. Portraits and title vignettes on INDIA 
PAPER, facsimiles on JAPAN PAPER. 32 vols. 8vo, buckram, 
paper labels, uncut. Bost.: Riverside Press, 1898 


* LARGE PAPER EDITION, limited to 500 copies, of which this 
is No. 260. A finely printed edition, including the lives of Ben- 
jamin Franklin [Morse], Samuel Adams [Hosmer], Patrick 
Henry [Tyler], George Washington [Lodge], 2 vols.; John 
Adams _ [Morse], Alexander Hamilton [Lodge], Gouverneur 
Morris [Roosevelt], John Jay [Pellew], John Marshall {[Magru- 
der], Thomas Jefferson [Morse], James Madison [Gay], Albert 
Gallatin [Stevens], James Monroe [Gilman], John Quincy 
Adams [Morse], John Randolph [Adams], Andrew Jackson 


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[Sumner], Martin Van Buren [Shepard], Henry Clay [Schurz], 
2 vols.; Daniel Webster [Lodge], John C. Calhoun [Van Holst], 
Thomas H. Benton [Roosevelt], Lewis Cass [McLaughlin], 
Abraham Lincoln [Morse], 2 vols.; William H. Seward 
[Lothrop], Salmon P. Chase [Hart], Charles Francis Adams 
{Adams], Charles Sumner [Storey], Thaddeus Stevens [McCall], 
General Index. 


35. ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING).  Fitz-Greene 
Halleck, by E. A. Duyckinck. 2 ENGRAVED PORTRAITS, 
PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. 4to, half morocco, gilt top, uncut. 

N. Y. 1868 


* ONLY 50 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR W. L. ANDREWS. 


HANDSOME EXAMPLE OF MODERN BINDING. 


36. ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING). A Trio of Eight- 
eenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Minia- 
ture. Jortraits, etc. 8vo, FULL BROWN CRUSHED LEVANT 
MOROCCO, WITH A RICH AND ARTISTIC BORDER ON BOTH 
SIDES, COMPOSED OF CURVED LINES WITH FLORAL EMBEL- 
LISHMENTS, AND WITH INLAYS OF A DIFFERENT SHADE OF 
BROWN LEVANT, THE SURFACES OF WHICH ARE COVERED 
WITH SMALL DOTS, BACK TOOLED TO MATCH, DOUBLURE OF 
RUSSET LEVANT, IN THE CENTRE OF EACH COVER BEING A 
LARGE FLORAL ORNAMENT INLAID WITH GREEN AND 
CANARY-COLORED LEVANT, WITH GOLD TOOLING ON OUTER 
BORDERS OF FLORAL AND SCROLL WORK, WATERED SILK 
LININGS, GILT TOP, BY TOOF. ENCLOSED IN AUTUMN-LEAF 
MOROCCO SOLANDER CASE. N. Y. 1899 


* Only 161 copies were printed on Imperial Japan paper bear- 
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exported. 


MARKHAM’S ‘“‘THE PLEASURES OF PRINCES.” FINE COPY. 


37. ANGLING. MARKHAM (GERVASE) The Pleasvres 
of Princes; or, Good Men’s Recreations. Contayning A Dis- 
course of the generall ART OF FISHING WITH THE ANGLE, 
or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging 
thereunto. Together with the Choyce, Ordring, Breeding, 
and Dyetting of the fighting Cock. Being a worke never 
in that nature handled by any former Author. Small 4to, 
full polished ealf, gilt edges on the rough, by RIVIERE. 
Lond.: Printed by Iohn Norton, for Henry Tavnton, in St. 
Dunstan’s Church-yard in Fleete-Street, 1635. 


* A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS RARE VOLUME; WITH LARGE 
MARGINS. The famous Hecksher collection of angling books 
did not have this edition. 

In a recent London dealer’s catalogue, a copy evidently 
about the same in condition, is priced at fifteen guineas. 


38. ANGLING. BOWLKER (RICHARD). The Art of Ang- 
ling Improved, in all its parts, especially Fly-Fishing: 
containing a particular Account of the several sorts of 
Fresh-Water Fish, with their most proper Baits; also the 
names, colouxs and seasons of all the most useful Flies, with 


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Directions for making each Fly artificially in the most 
exact manner. 12mo, half levant morocco, uncut. 
Worcester [ca. 1758] 


*EXTREMELY RARE IN UNCUT STATE. See also Nos. 14, 21 and 30. 


RARE AND EARLY SPECIMEN FROM ZELL’S PRESS. 


39. AQUINO (THOMAS DE). Summa de Articulis fidei 
et Ecclesie Sacramentis. Gothic letter: 16 unnumbered 
leaves (including last blank) without signatures and catch- 
words; 27 lines to the pages. Small 4to, IN A VERY FINE 
GERMAN MOSAIC BINDING OF THE 18TH CENTURY, in red, 
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and richly gilt and ornamented, having the figure of a tulip 
inlaid in silk and morocco of various colors on the green 
centre piece, gilt back, silk linings, gilt gauffred edges, 
IN THE FINEST CONDITION. [Cologne: U. Zell, c. 1466] 


* THE EXTREMELY RARE First IsSuE. Apparently no copy is 
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specimen from the Press of Zell, the first printer of Cologne, 
and one of the earliest books printed by him, his first witha 
date bearing the year 1466. A very clean copy and a beautiful 
specimen of the 18th century German art of bookbinding. 
From the Inglis Library. Copinger, 1559; Pellechet, 102 *. 


SUPERB COPY OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF BURTON’S 
ARABIAN NIGHTS. 


40. ARABIAN NIGHTS. A Literal Translation of the 
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of 
the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction 
Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem 
Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights, 
by Richard F. Burton, 10 vols.; The Supplemental Nights, 
with Notes, Anthropological and Explanatory, by R. F. 
Burton. FIRST EDN. 16 vols. 8vo, newly and handsomely 
bound in full light green crushed levant morocco, sides 
panelled by five bars, each of which are composed of four 
gilt lines; backs gilt tooled with four inlays of red morocco; 
doublure of white levant, inlaid with green triangles and 
red diamonds to form a border around a plain central panel, 
delicately gilt tooled; gilt tops, silk end papers. Benares: 
Printed for the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscri- 
bers, 1885-1888. 


* THE RARE BENARES OR First ISSUE OF THIS WORK, of 
which only a few copies were issued for subscribers only. 


EDITIO PRINCEPS OF ARISTOTLE‘S NATURAL HISTORY. 


41. ARISTOTELES. Lispri pz ANIMALIBUS. Roman 
character. 250 unnumbered leaves without catchwords; 
35 lines to the page; Signat. a-x, aa-ff. Fol. 1r.: THEODORI: 
GRACI: THESSALONICEN | SIS: PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: 
DE ANIMA | LIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD | 


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PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO | (a) NIMALIVM PARTES: AVT 
IN | cOposite .. . Fol. 249 v., line 14: Finiunt libri de Ani- 
malibus Aristotelis interprete Theodoro | Gaze. V. clar- 
issimo: quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cypri- | us ex Arche- 
typo ipsius theodori fideliter & dilgéter auscul | tauit: & 
formulis imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem | de Colo- 
nia socitiq3 eius Iohanné mathen de Gherretzé. Anno | 
domini M.CCCC.LXXVI. fol. 250 r.: Tabula cartarum 
. secundum ordinem ponendarum. The versois blank. Folio, 
Old calf, gilt back. Venice: John of Cologne and John 
Manthen of Gherretzen, 1476. 

* THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ARISTOTLE’S 
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that Sixtus IV sent it back to him with the price of the bind- 
ing, probably on account of a passage of the preface. A VERY 
FINE AND LARGE COPY OF THIS MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN OF 
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ger, 1699; Proctor, 4312. 


EARLY SPECIMEN FROM JOHANN MENTELIN’S PRESS. 


42. AUGUSTINUS (S.). DE CIVITATE DEI LIBRI XXII, 
cum commento Thome Valois et Nicolai Trivetti. Gothic 
character of two sizes, double coll.; 385 unnumbered leaves, 
without signatures and catchwords, 47 lines to the page. 
Folio, full calf. [n. p., n. d., but Strassburg: Johann 
Mentelin, c, 1468. ] 

* ONE OF THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF THIS CELEBRATED WORK 
AND A BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT SPECIMEN FROM THE JUSTLY 
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Proctor, 201, 202. 


FROM THE FAMOUS JENSON PRESS, 


43. AUGUSTINUS (8.). DE CIVITATE DEI LIBRI XXII. 
Gothic character, 306 unnumbered leaves, without signa- 
twres and catchwords, double columns; 46 lines to the page. 
Fol. 1 blank; Fol. 2 r., col. 1: Aurelij augustini de ciuitate 
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Aurelij augustini de ciuitate dei ru- | brice feliciter ex- 
pliciunt. ol. 16 blank; Fol. 17 r.: LIBER [Nicolaus Jen- 
son | Gallicus] PRIMVS | col. 1.: Aurelij Augustini epi de 
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mozéicho | principe: Anno a natiuitate dni mile | simo 
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bres. oll. 305 and 306 both blank. Folio, full vellum, 
gilt back. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1475 
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ABLY FINE AND VERY LARGE COPY, measuring 111g x 814 inches, 
PROBABLY ONE OF THE TALLEST KNOWN. COMPLETE AND PER- 
FECT COPIES ARE EXTREMELY RARE, and only fou. or five have 
been found perfect with 306 leaves. The two copies from the 
Sunderland Library, one on paperand the other on vellum, had ~ 
only 300 leaves of printed matter each, while a complete copy . 
of this book should have 302 printed leaves. This is the first 
copy of this famous specimen of printing ;to be offered at pub- 
lic auction in America, 
Hain-Copinger, 2051; Proctor, 4096. Pellechet (No. 1550) is 
wrong in giving 310 leaves to the work. 


ARNOLD’S FIRST POEM, OF WHICH ONLY ONE OTHER COPY 
HAS APPEARED IN THE AMERICAN AUCTION ROOMS. 

44, ARNOLD (MATTHEW). ALARIC AT ROME. | A 
Prize Poem, | Recited in Rugby School, | June XII, 
MDCCCXI. | (ornament, the Arms of the College) | Rugby: 
Combe and Crossley. | MDCCXL. THE EXCESSIVELY RARE 
FIRST EDN. OF ARNOLD’S FIRST POEM. 8vo, IN THE ORIGI- 
NAL PINK WRAPPERS, UNCUT. Enclosed in leather case, 
with inner protecting cover of red silk, with ties. 


* ONE OF THE RAREST OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FIRST EDI- 
TIONS, OF WHICH BUT FEW COPIES ARE KNOWN. ONLY ONE 
OTHER COPY HAS PREVIOUSLY APPEARED IN THE AUCTION ROOMS 
IN THIS COUNTRY, which was sold in these rooms last season in 
the Hermann sale for three hundred and forty-five dollars. 

Arnold was but eighteen years of age when he won the 
scholarship at Rugby with the poem “ Alaric at Rome.” 


45. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Geist’s Grave. Square 
12mo, original printed wrappers, uncut. 
Lond.: Printed only for a few Friends, 1881 
* FINE COPY. VERY SCARCE. A pretty collection of verse 
occasioned by the death of the poet’s dog. But few copies have 
been offered for sale since its publication. 

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46. ARTHUR (KING). The Byrth, Lyf and Actes of 
Kyng Arthur; of his noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, 
theyr merveyllous enquestes and adventures, thachyenyng 
of the Sant Greal; and in the end Le Morte Darthur, with 
the Dolorous Deth and Departyng out of thys worlde of 
them al. With an Introduction and Notes by Robert 
Southey. 2 vols. 4to, three-quarter crushed levant mo- 
rocco, gilt tops. Lond. 1817 


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being written in comparatively modern language, gives the 
general reader an excellent idea of what romances of chivalry 
actually were. 

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47, [AUSTEN (JANE).] Sense and Sensibility: a Novel, 
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approaches so nearly to Shakespeare. Lewes declared that he 
would rather have been the author of Pride and Prejudice 
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61. BINDING.—STUART (LADY ARABELLA). Manuscript: 
transcript of letters and petitions addressed by Lady 
Arabella Stuart to her Cousin German King James I., and 
to others of her noble relatives and friends, imploring their 
intercession with the King in her behalf after she had in- 
curred the Royal displeasure by her secret marriage in 1610: 
with a grandson of the Earl of Hertford (who himself had 
suffered imprisonment in the reign of Queen Elizabeth for 


having secretly married the sister of Lady Jane Grey), and: 


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capture at sea on her attempted flight to France in 1611. 
The MS. is written in an elegant court hand of the time of 

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ey 
Peng Pater, 
PB na go, aati SS 


[PRAYER Book or Louis XV., wirH RoyaL ARMS. BouUND BY PADELOUP. 
SEE No. 66. ] 


front cover THE ARMS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, quarterly 
France and England, have been illuminated in satin, sur- 
mounted with the Royal crown, the ribbon of the Garter, 
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square panels (the illumination from the upper has gone); 
the lower contains an emblematic device painted in minia- 
ture, representing a bird raising from the earth, with the 
motto ‘‘JE FUY LA TERRE ET CHERCHE LE CIEL.”’ 

XVIIth Century. 


* THE BOOK ITSELF WAS MOST PROBABLY PREPARED BY ONE OF 
THE YELVERTON FAMILY, AND INTENDED FOR PRESENTATION TO 
QUEEN ELIZABETH, as a memorandum book; but subsequently 
used for transcribing the above letters, etc. BOTH AS A SPECI- 
MEN OF FINE BINDING AND HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT THE BOOK IS 
UNIQUE. 


The following is a summary of the contents of the volume, 
with some of the heartrending appeals to the King’s mercy 
which they contain: 


No. 1 commences: ‘‘May it please your most Excellent Ma- 
jestie . . . to consider in what a miserable estate I had ben if I 
had taken anie other course than I did, for my owne conscience 
witnessing before God that I was then the wife of him that now 
Iam. I could never have matched anie other man, but to have 
lived all the Days of my lief as an Harlot, which your Majestie 
would have abhorred in anie, especiallie in one who hathe the 
honour to have any drop of your Majesties blood in them.’’ 


2. ‘To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. ... My good 
likeing of this gentleman that is my Husband, and my fortune 
drew me to a contract before I acquainted your Majestie. I 
humbly beseech your Majestie to consider how impossible it was 
for me to imagine itt could be offensive unto you Majesty hav- 
ing few daies before given me your Royall consent to bestowe 
myself on Anie Subject of your Majesty. ... I presume so 
much, that if itt were as convenient in a worldlie respect as 
malice may make it same, to separate as whom God hath joined 
your Majestie would not do evil that good might come thereof, 
nor make me that have the honour to be so neare your Majestie 
in blood, the first precedent that ever was, though our Princes 
may have left some as little imitable for so good and gratious 
a, King as your Majestie, as Davids dealing with Uriah... .’’ 


8. ‘To the King’s most Excellent Majestic. ... I most 
humblie beseech your Majestie (whose goodness I presume) will 
not suffer me, that have already lived unfortunatlie above XXX 
yeares, speed on my time with more heavie discomforts than 
ever, to prostrate myself at your Royale feet, there in all humili- 
tie to speak for myselfe.’’ 


4, **To the Queenes most Excellent Majestie. May it please 
your most Excellent Majestie to consider how long I have lived 
a Spectacle of his Majestie’s displeasure.... I have presumed 
to present your Majestie herewith the copie of my humble peti- 
tion to his Majesty att the time when his Majestie forgiveth 
greater offences... .’’ 


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5. ‘*To the Kings most Excellent Majestie.... I shall never 
cease to begg favour till it please your Majestie to heare my 
praiers and teares which are my intercessors to God to move 
your Majestie’s heart.’’ 


6. ‘‘This Petition was presented in this form because the 
King would receive noe more written with her own hand. In 
all humilitie the most wretched and unfortunate creature that 
ver live prostrates itt selfe at the feet of the most Mercifull 
King.’’ 

7. ‘*To the most noble my verie good Lord the Duke of 
Lennox .. .’’ ending ‘‘your most sorrowful and afflicted pore 
cousin and, suppliant.’’ 

8. ‘To the Duke of Lennox.’’ There is algo on a loose sheet 
a duplicate of this letter, which appears to have been addressed 
to other of her relatives and friends to beseech them to mediate 
with the King. 

9. ‘To the right honourable my verie good friend the Vis- 
count Fenton. ... I have been sick even to the Dead... . 
Good my lord consider the fault cannot be uncommitted. ...?’ 


10. ‘*To the right honourable my verie good friend the Earle 
of Marre.’’ 


11. ‘‘To the Viscount Fenton.’’ 


12. ‘‘To the right honourable my verie good lord the Earle 
of Dumfirmline, the Lord High Chancellor of Scotland.?’ 


13. ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie.’’ A long letter 
asking ‘‘ Restitution of the gould and disposing of the jewells 
taken with me att sea.’’ Subscribed ‘‘ This letter was written 
to the King after she was taken at sea and committed to the 
Tower.’’ 


14. ‘‘The copie of the King’s letter to the Councill concern- 
ing the Ladie Arabella, ordering certain monie and jewells found 
upon the Lapy ARBELLA may be valued and sold by Sir Wm. 
Boyer and HENRI YELVERTON, and the same be delivered to 
Henrie Yelverton to discharge a debt of hers for which YELVER- 
TON standeth bound. Given under our Signett att our Pallace 
of Westminster, this XXth day of September in the ninth year 
of our reign.’’ 


15. ‘‘To the right Honourable the Lords of his Majesties most 
honourable privie Councill concerning the disposal of the jewels 
referred to in the Kings order by HENRY YELVERTON.’’ 


16. ‘‘The Lords of the Councills letter to Sir Wm. Boyer re- 
quiring him with the assistance of HENRY YELVERTON, EsqQ., to 
sell the jewels of the Lady Arbella.’’ 


The volume contains, in addition to the above-mentioned his- 
torical documents, ‘‘ Annagramma de ARBELLA SEYMAURE,’’ four 
lines in verse, ‘‘ The wall on which I leane is‘ Maurble Royale.’ ’’ 
A Latin distich, 

‘*Causa mitie tecum communis carceris Ara, 
Bila tite causaest araque saira Mitie,’’ 


addressed by Mr. Melvin to Mr. Seymaure for welcome to the 
Tower. This rebus is an early example of the use of the form 
of the name Arabella; all of the unfortunate lady’s intimate 
relatives, including the King, her Cousin, and her grandmother 
the Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick), refer to her 
as Arbella. The volume contains also, under the name of ‘‘ Mr. 
Fowler,’’ a poem in nine stanzas of six lines each, pleading in 
the person of the Lady Arbella her cause with the King, and the 
volume ends, after the interval of several blank leaves, with an- 
other poem written as if describing a dream of the Lady Ar- 


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bella whilst in the Tower, beseeching the King’s mercy and sug- 
gestive of tragedies still deeper than historians have as yet 
suspected in connection with her. Sir A. W. Franks, in his 
letter to Mr. Houblon, says: ‘‘The writing certainly is Nov her 
(Lady Arabella’s) own; the conclusion is that these transcripts 
were made by some attendant devoted to the unfortunate lady 
in her adversity. Such a trusted friend and follower is to be 
found in Henry Yelverton, whose name occurs in the extracts 
quoted above, and whose wife, ‘Mrs. Yelverton,’ was the person 
whom the Lady Arbella, on the occasion of her first detention, 
desired might receive her money and jewells.’’ 

The distinctive nature of the binding shows that it was doubt- 
less prepared for presentation to Queen Elizabeth, probably, as 
indicated by the two interlaced initial letters YY, by a member 
of the YELVERTON FAMILY, whose name has been mentioned 
above. Both Henry Yelverton and his father, Christopher Yel- 
verton, were judges in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and of 
James I., and in accordance with the Court custom of the time 
would have been likely to have devised some such original idea 
as this, of a highly decorative blank memorandum book for the 
Queen’s private use. It is probable, however, for some reason, 
this book may not have been presented to Her Majesty, but have 
remained in the possession of the Yelvertons, and subsequently 
used to record these letters and petitions to the King. . 

Tht book is from the collection of J. Archer Houblon, and 
was exhibited by the hands of J. C. Robinson at the meeting 
of the Society of Antiquaries, December 3, 1868. Some notes 
on the volume by John Bruce were read, and were afterwards 
published in the Archaeologia. Accompanying the volume is a 
letter from Sir Augustus W. Franks, of the British Museum, 
addressed to J. Archer Houblon, the previous owner of the vol- 
ume, dated November 22, 1876, in which he says: ‘‘I forget 
whether I mentioned to you that I discovered in your little vol- 
ume a poem which Mr. Bruce had overlooked, and which seems 
to allude to some event which I cannot at present make out. I 
fancy that I have deciphered the initials on the cover. I have 
had woodcuts made of those initials, and I should like once more 
to collate my transcript with the original, when your manuscript 
will be ready to come back to you. There is one matter which 
I would suggest to you, viz., the advisability of having a leather 
case made for the book.’’ The book is now preserved in a 
stout, well-made case of olive morocco. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


A FINE EXAMPLE FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES THE 
FIRST OF ENGLAND. 


62. BINDING. The Romish Fisher caught and held in 
his own net. By Daniel Featly. 4to, contemporary Eng- 
lish binding in brown morocco, the sides richly gilt tooled 
with small stars. large gilt ornamental corner stamps, WITH 
THE ARMS OF KING CHARLES I. of England stamped in 
gold on the centre of both covers, gilt back, gilt edges. 
The back is faded, but THE BINDING IS IN REMARKABLY 
FINE CONDITION and has not a sign of the slightest restora- 
tion. Lond. 1624 


* Charles I. was a great lover of the fine arts, and so excelled 
in them that it is said that he might, if it were necessary, 
‘‘have got a livelihood from them.” He did not, however, 
possess the same love for books, and although he bought some 


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when young, and had a considerable number of splendid 
volumes, given to him by his mother, he seems to have made 
but comparatively few additions to the royal collection. Books 
WITH BINDINGS BEARING HIS ARMS ARE BY NO MEANS NUMEROUS; 
AND THEY HAVE BECOME EXTREMELY RARE WHEN THEY HAVE 
HIS ARMS AS KING OF ENGLAND, AS IN THE ABOVE COoPy. In 
fact, in the famous exhibition of bindings executed for Royal 
Personages and celebrated bibliophiles held at the Grolier Club 
in 1895, there was only one example of binding executed for 
Charles 1. AND THAT AS PRINCE OF WALES, AND NOT AS KING 
OF ENGLAND. 


63. BINDING. The Book of Common Prayer, and Ad- 
ministration of the Sacraments; the Holy Bible; the Whole 
Book of Psalms, collected into English meter by Thomas 
Sternhold, John Hopkins and others. Folio, contemporary 
CAMBRIDGE BINDING in black morocco extra, gilt, outer 
black border, Jacobean black centre pieces and corners on 
the sides, ground diapered with a small triangular orna- 
ment formed of four trefoils, gilt back, gilt edges, by 
THOMAS BUCK. Cambridge: Thos. & John Buck, 1629 


* A VERY FINE SPECIMEN OF CAMBRIDGE CAROLEAN BINDING 
IN CHOICE CONDITION. 


64. BINDING, WITH THE CYPHER OF CHARLES 
THE FIRST. Eikon Basilike. The Portraicture of his 
Sacred Majestie in his Solitude and Sufferings; together 
with his private Prayers, used in the Time of his Restraint, 
and delivered to D. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately 
before his death, 1649. With fine wmpressions of the en- 
graved portrait of Charles I. and folding plate of Charles I. 
praying, by WILLIAM MARSHALL. 8vo, bound in CONTEM- 
PORARY FULL MOROCCO, panelled sides, WITH THE CYPHER 
OF CHARLES I, C. R., WITH A CROWN ABOVE, stamped in 
gilt in centre, gilt-lined back (joints repaired). Lond. 1649 


* THIS IS ONE OF THE PRESENTATION COPIES BY CHARLES THE 
SECOND, AND IS RULED THROUGHOUT IN RED INK. 


65. BINDING WITH PAINTED FORE-EDGES. The 
Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacra- 
ment, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, ac- 
cording to the use of the Church of England, together with 
the Psalter or Psalms of David. Hngraved front., and 
ruled throughout with red ink. Folio, CONTEMPORARY ENG- 
LISH BINDING IN RED MOROCCO, WITH A CENTRE-PIECE COM- 
POSED OF LOZANGUES IN DARK BLUE MOROCCO AND CIRCLES 
IN CITRON MOROCCO, AND ORNAMENTAL CORNER-PIECES ALSO 
IN BLUE AND CITRON MOROCCO, INLAID ON THE SIDES, ALL 
WITHIN GOLD LINES, GILT TOOLED MOSAIC BACK, to match 
the design of the covers, gilt edges, WITH THE CROWNED 
ROYAL ARMS OF ENGLAND BETWEEN SUPPORTS AND EM- 
BLEMATIC ROSES AND ROSE LEAVES PAINTED ON THE FORE- 
EDGES. Lond. 1710 

* The above book is from one of the Royal Chapels, and was 
PROBABLY BOUND AND THE FORE-EDGES PAINTED FOR QUEEN 


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ANNE, ITIS A VERY FINE SPECIMEN OF THE ENGLISH ART OF 
MOSAIC BOOKBINDING AND FORE-EDGE PAINTING in the 18th 
century, and was exhibited at various bindings exhibitions 
by Mr. J. Herbert Bailey, the Editor of the ‘‘ Connoisseur,” 
to whom it belonged. 'THE PAINTING ON THE FORE-EDGES 
IS IN ITS BRILLIANCY AND FINE STATE OF PRESERVATION, AS 
NEW. 


KING LOUIS XV, BINDING, WITH ROYAL ARMS. 


66. BINDING.—Office de la Semaine-Sainte, a l’usage 
de Rome et de Paris, en Latin et en Francois. Ruled 
throughout with red ink. Engraved title and plates by 
J. B. Scotin, after A. Humblot. 8vo, old French red mo- 
rocco, broad ornamental borders on the sides, the centre 
panels tooled and gilt to an interlaced geometrical pattern, 
the spaces filled with pointillé tooling representing leaves 
and butterflies, with the crowned arms of King Louis XV. of 
France stamped in gold on the centre of both covers, and his 
monogram, formed by two interlaced Ls stamped in two of 
the spaces formed by the geometrical pattern, immediately 
beneath and over the arms, the back tooled and gilt also to 
a geometrical pattern, with a small fleur-de-lis repeated five 
times, marbled end paper, gilt edges, by the great PADE- 
LOUP. Paris, 1732 


-*Kina Louis XV’s OWN BOOK OF PRAYERS FOR THE HOLY 
WEEK, AS INDICATED BY HIS MONOGRAMS STAMPED ON THE COVERS. 
There are occasionally offered for sale specimens of bind- 
ings somewhat similar to the above, with the arms of the King, 
but without his monogram, These books were not for the use 
of the King himself, but only for the Gentlemen of the Court. 
IN FINE CONDITION. 

[See Reproduction. ] 


‘MARIE LECZINSKA’S PRIVATE PRAYER BOOK. 

67. BINDING.—Office de la Semaine Sainte en Latin et 
en Frangois 4 l’usage de Rome et de Paris, dedié ala Reine. 
FEingraved title, ENGRAVED DEDICATION PLATE TO THE 
QUEEN OF FRANCE, MARIE LECZINSKA, and fine copper en- 
gravings. 8vo, old French red morocco, the sides covered 
with a gilt geometrical interlaced pattern, the spaces filled 
with gilt tooled pointillé ornaments, in Le Gascon’s man- 
ner, WITH THE ARMS OF MARIE LECZINSKA, QUEEN OF 
LovIs XV. OF FRANCE, STAMPED IN GOLD ON THE CENTRE 
OF BOTH COVERS AND WITH HER MONOGRAM OVER AND BE- 
NEATH, gilt tooled back, with a fleur-de-lis repeated five 
times, to match the covers, gilt edges, by the great PADE- 
LOUP. Paris, 1728 


* Prayer books bearing merely the arms of Queen Marie 
Leczinska, are not particularly rare, as they were frequently 


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presented to members of the royal household, to be used by 
them while at court; but COPIES STAMPED WITH THE PERSONAL 
MONOGRAM OF THE QUEEN, AS ABOVE, ARE OF FAR GREATER 
RARITY, AS THESE WERE RESERVED SOLELY FOR HER OWN PRI- 
VATE USE. ANOTHER PROOF THAT THIS BINDING WAS EXECUTED 
FOR PRESENTATION TO THE QUEEN IS THAT THE FINELY EN- 
GRAVED PLATE WITH DEDICATION TO HER MAJESTY IS NOT TO BE 
FOUND IN ANY OTHER COPY OF THIS PARTICULAR EDITION. IN 
FINE CONDITION, AND FORMING A SUPERB PAIR, WITH THE PRE- 
CEDING ITEM. A binding very similar to the above was sold in 
these rooms last season, but without the monogram, and there 
was not a dedication plate. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


EMBROIDERED VENETIAN BINDING. 


68. BINDING.—De Angelo Contareno cum Divi Marei 
Procurator electus Dignitatis possessionem caperet Orationes. 
Engraved frontispiece, with crowned monogram of Angelo 
Contarim and vignette on title. 4to, CONTEMPORARY VENE- 
TIAN BINDING in red velvet, the sides beautifully embroidered 
with broad ornamental borders in gold thread of delicate and 
accurate workmanship, WITH THE CROWNED ARMS OF THE IL- 
LUSTRIOUS CONTARINI F'AMILY OF VENICE, quartered with those 
of Foscarini, beautifully embroidered in gold and silver thread 
on the front cover and surrounded by flags, guns, battle-axes 
and drums; on the centre of the lower cover is a coat-of-arms, 
also finely embroidered in gold and silver (argent field, with 
a fleur-de-lis surmounted by a gold lambel), gilt edges. 

Venice, 1754 


* ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES OF THE RARE AND 
CELEBRATED VENETIAN EMBROIDERED BINDINGS EVER OFFERED 
FOR SALE, AND IN THE FINEST CONDITION. The book contains 
Latin and Italian orations in praise of Angelo Contarini, who 
had been just elected to the high office of Procurator of the 
Republic of Venice, AND IT WAS SO BEAUTIFULLY ORNAMENTED 
FOR PRESENTATION TO HIM. The arms on the lower cover, not 
identified, are probably those of the donor. VENETIAN EM- 
BROIDERED BINDINGS, ESPECIALLY OF SUCH FINE AND RICH EXE- 
CUTION AS THE ABOVE, ARE VERY RARELY FOUND. 


69. BINDING.—Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). In Memoriam. 
FIRST EDN. 12mo, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL WINE- 
COLORED CRUSHED LEVANT MOROCCO; SIDES GOLD TOOLED 
WITH OUTER BORDER OF SCROLL DESIGNS AND CORNER 
ORNAMENTS ENCLOSING PANELS COVERED WITH DIAMOND- 
SHAPED COMPARTMENTS, EACH OF WHICH CONTAINS A FLAM- 
ING TORCH AND HEART IN ALTERNATE ROWS; BACK GOLD 
TOOLED; DOUBLURE OF WHITE VELLUM WITH GILT TOOLED 
BORDERS; VELLUM END PAPERS, GILT EDGES, BY THE CLUB 
BINDERY. ENCLOSED IN A BLACK MOROCCO SILK-LINED 
CASE. Lond.: Moxon, 1850 


70. BINDING.—Doyle (James E.). A Chronicle of Eng- 
land, B. C. 55 to A. D. 1485. Profusely illustrated with cou- 
ORED ENGRAVINGS portraying famous scenes, costumes of the 
times, etc., by the author. 4to, RicHLY BOUND IN FULL BROWN 


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CRUSHED LEVANT MOROCCO; SIDES HAVING A NARROW INLAID RED 
BORDER EDGED WITH SAW-TOOTHED GILT LINES, WHICH ENCLOSE 
A BROAD STRIP OF BROWN, INLAID WITH INTERWOVEN BLACK 
LINES, THIS IN TURN ENCLOSES A CENTRAL PANEL WHICH IS IN- 
LAID WITH RED AND GREEN IN GEOMETRICAL CURVES AND SQUARES, 
THE SURFACE IS COVERED WITH INNUMERABLE SMALL GILT STARS; 
GILT TOOLED BACK INLAID WITH FOUR RED SQUARES WHICH EN- 
CLOSE BLACK CIRCULAR DEVICES; BROAD INSIDE BORDERS GILT 
TOOLED WITH LINES, DENTELLE AND FLORAL ORNAMENTS; 
WATERED SILK LININGS AND END PAPERS; GILT EDGES, BY Hay- 
DAY. Lond, 1864 


* A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF GROLIERESQUE BINDING. The work 
has the distinction of depicting true examples of the costumes 
of the various periods. 


71. BINDING.—Poetarum Scenicorum Grecorum, Ats- 
chyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis et Aristophanis, Fabulz super- 
stites et Perditarum fragmenta. Ex recognit. Guil. Din- 
dorfii. Royal 8vo, full blue erushed levant morocco, the 
sides entirely covered with a gilt tooled pattern departing 
from the centre and formed of interlaced scrolls, some 
terminating with flowers, gilt tooled back in the same 
manner; doublure of the same colored morocco, entirely 
gilt tooled, with grapes, grape vines and leaves, silk linings, 
gilt edges, by STOAKLEY. Lond. 1881 


72. BINDING.— ENAMELING. Popelin (Claudius). L’ 
Email des Peintres. Ornamental initials. 8vo, full light 
green levant morocco extra, the sides covered with a semis 
of gilt tooled roses, gilt back, gilt tooled inside borders, 
uncut. Paris, 1866 


* FIRST EDITION of this interesting book, written by one of 
the best modern enamellers. Laid in is an autograph letter 
signed from the author to Théophile Gautier, thanking him 
for a sonnet written in his praise and here printed, dated Feb. 
11, 1867. 


73. BINDING.—[Boyle (Mrs. E. V.).] Ros Rosarum ex 
Horto poetarum (Poems on Roses by Tennyson, Herrick, 
Waller, Thackeray, Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Keats, ete.). 
FIRST EDN. 12mo, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL GREEN 
CRUSHED LEVANT MOROCCO, SIDES DELICATELY GOLD 
TOOLED WITH BRANCHES OF ROSES EXTENDING FROM EACH 
CORNER, TO FORM A PLAIN PANEL IN THE CENTRE; BACK 
GILT TOOLED AND PANELLED; DOUBLURE OF RICH CRIMSON 
CRUSHED LEVANT, GOLD TOOLED WITH DAINTY ROSE VINES 
ON A TRELLISED BORDER; DAMASK FLY-LEAVES, GILT 
EDGES, BY CHAMBOLLE-DURU. Lond. 1885 


74. BINDING.— UZANNE (OCTAVE). Son Altesse la 
Femme. With rllusts. by Gervex, Gonzalés, Kratké, Lynch, 
Moreau and Rops. Royal 8vo, FULL GREEN CRUSHED 
LEVANT MOROCCO EXTRA, gilt borders on the sides, the 
panels finely gilt to an arabesque design in the style of the 


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bindings executed by the celebrated printer Geoffroy Tory, 
with an enamelled fleur-de-lis in the centre; doublure of 
red levant morocco, large gilt dentelle borders in the Derome 
manner, watered silk linings, gilt top, uncut. Paris, 1885 

* LIMITED EDITION. A FINE SPECIMEN OF MODERN BINDING, 


"5. BINDING.—Uzanne (Octave). La Frangaise du 
Siécle. Modes, Moeurs, Usages. TJllusts. a Vaquarelle de 
Albert Lynch, gravées a Veau-forte en couleurs par Hugene 
Gaujean. 8v0, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN FULL GRAY CRUSHED 
LEVANT MOROCCO, SIDES WITH LINED BORDERS FROM WHICH 
RUN INTERTWINING GILT STEMS THAT CULMINATE NEAR THE 
CENTRE IN EIGHT BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS INLAID IN ORANGE- 
COLORED MOROCCO WITH GREEN INLAID LEAVES; BACK GILT 
TOOLED AND INLAID; DOUBLURE FORMED OF A LARGE GREEN 
LEVANT PANEL SURROUNDED BY A GRAY MOROCCO BORDER 
AND GILT LINED; A LARGE FLEUR-DE-LIS OF ORANGE LEVANT 
WITH GILT EDGES IN THE CENTRE; WATERED SILK END 
PAPERS, GILT EDGES. Paris, 1886 


76. BINDING.— Matthews (Brander). Bookbindings, Old 
and New. Notes of a Book-Lover. With an Account of 
the Grolier Club of New York. Numerous reproductions. 
8vo, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN FULL BROWN CRUSHED LEVANT 
MOROCCO, SIDES GILT TOOLED WITH DOTTED ORNAMENTS IN 
THE CORNERS AND A BROAD FLORAL BORDER, GILT TOOLED 
AND PANELLED BACK, GILT INSIDE BORDER, SILK LINING 
AND END PAPERS, GILT TOP, UNCUT, BY THE CLUB BINDERY. 

N. Y¥V-1895 


No. 28 of Only 150 copies printed THROUGHOUT ON JAPAN 
PAPER, 


BEAUTIFUL TRANSLUCENT VELLUM BINDING BY CHIVERS. 


77. BINDING.—The Song of Solomon. With 12 full-page 
and numerous other decorations by H. Granville Fell. 4to. 
BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL TRANSLUCENT VELLUM, UPON THE 
FRONT COVER OF WHICH CEDRIC CHIVERS HAS PAINTED THE 
FIGURES OF TWO SINGING ANGELS, WHO, WITH THEIR HANDS UP- 
RAISED, HOLD THE SCROLL ON WHICH IS WRITTEN ‘‘THE SONG 
OF SONGS’’; VARIOUS EMBLEMATIC DESIGNS FILL THE REST OF 
THE COVER. ON THE BACK COVER IS PAINTED THE DESIGN OF A 
DOUBLE HEART, IN THE UPPER PORTION OF WHICH IS A BEAUTI- 
FULL RED ROSE WITH GREEN LEAVES AND STEM, AND IN THE 
LOWER COMPARTMENT ARE FOUR SPRAYS OF THE LILY-OF-THE- 
VALLEY. GILT INSIDE BORDERS, GILT TOP, UNCUT. 

Lond.: Chapman & Hall, 1897 

ONE OF TEN COPIES seer coe. VELLUM AND FINELY 


78. BINDING. Arnold (Matthew). The Forsaken Mer- 
man. With decorations in color by Jean C. Archer. Small 
8vo, finely bound, by THE GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS, in 


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[PRAYER Book ofr MAriz LECZINSKA, WITH RoyaAL ARMS, BOUND BY 
PapDELOUP. SEE No. 67.] 


a4 


full green crushed levant morocco with corner ornaments 
on each side containing vari-colored leathers, doublure of 
dark blue levant with exquisite border on each doubure 
containing inlays of different colored levants from the sides, 
vellum end-papers, gilt edges. Lond. 1901 


* PRINTED ON VELLUM, OF WHICH ONLY TEN COPIES WERE 
ISSUED. The illustrations are COLORED BY HAND (by Miss Gloria 
Cardew),. 


79. BINDING BY COBDEN SANDERSON. Tennyson 
(Alfred, Lord). Seven Poems and two Translations. Finely 
printed at the Doves Press. 8vo, full red crushed levant 
morocco, the sides tooled to a pretty design of ornaments 
and lines, corner inside ornaments, gilt edges, by C. [OBDEN] 
S. [ANDERSON] OF THE DOVES BINDERY. 

Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1902 


* A BEAUTIFUL COPY. Only a small number were printed. 
The Translations ‘‘ Archilles over the Trench” and ‘‘ Hector and. 
the Bridge of War” are from the Iliad, and the original poems 
comprise ‘‘ The Lotos Eaters,” ‘‘ Ulysses,” etc. 


THE MOST ELABORATE BINDING OF THE HAMPSTEAD 
BINDERY. 

80. BINDING.—The Bindings of To-morrow. A Record 
of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the Hampstead Bind- 
ery. With a Critical Introduction by G. Elliot Anstruther. 
With 50 beautiful reproductions IN coLoR of some of the 
famous bindings of the Hampstead Bindery. 4to. Easo- 
RATELY BOUND IN FULL GREEN CRUSHED LEVANT, INLAID WITH 
FIVE DIFFERENT COLORED MOROCCOS; THE SIDES HAVE IRREGULAR 
GILT DOTTED BORDERS, WITH BUNCHES OF GRAPES INLAID IN 
BLACK AT THE FOUR CORNERS ; MIDWAY BETWEEN THESE CORNERS 
ARE FOUR GROUPS OF THREE STAR-SHAPED RED INLAYS. 'THESE 
GROUPS, TOGETHER WITH THE CORNER ORNAMENTS, ARE CON- 
NECTED BY CITRON-COLORED INLAYS TO FORM A WIDE BORDER 
ABOUT THE CENTRAL PANEL, IN WHICH ARE TWO BLACK AND 
FOUR RED INLAYS, TOGETHER WITH NUMEROUS GREEN LEAVES, 
WHICH WITH YELLOW INLAYS FORM A CENTRE-PIECE; THE WHOLE 
SIDE IS DOTTED WITH SMALL CIRCULAR PURPLE INLAYS. Back 
GILT TOOLED AND INLAID. DOUBLURE OF RICH ROSE-COLORED 
LEVANT, WITH IRREGULAR PURPLE INLAID BORDER; NEXT TO THIS 
BORDER IS A ROSE-COLORED SQUARE CONTAINING AN OVAL INLAID 
IN LIGHT AND DARK GREEN ; THE OVAL IN TURN CONTAINS A ROSE 
SQUARE AND THIS SQUARE A DARK RED OVAL; THE WHOLE CEN- 
TRES IN A DARK GREEN STAR-SHAPED DESIGN; IN ADDITION TO 
THESE GENERAL FEATURES, THE WHOLE DOUBLURE IS COVERED 
WITH SMALL CIRCULAR AND HEART-SHAPED DOTS INLAID IN RED 
AND GREEN. GILT EDGES, VELLUM END-PAPERS, BY THE GUILD 
OF WOMEN BINDERS. Lond. 1902 


* No. 257 of only 500 copies printed for England and America. 
The binding of this book was designed by Miss Baly and worked 
by Miss Gowan. It is the most elaborate work ever done at the 
Hampstead Bindery, and CONTAINS OVER 1,100 SEPARATE INLAYS, 


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81. BINDING.—Poems by Perey Bysshe Shelley. Intro- 
duction by Walter Raleigh. Jllusts. by Robert Anning Bell. 
8vo. EXTRAVAGANTLY BOUND IN FULL GREEN CRUSHED LEVANT 
MOROCCO; SIDES AND BACK ENTIRELY COVERED WITH GILT TOOLED 
LEAVES, DENTELLE WORK, AND HUNDREDS OF SMALL INLAYS; THE 
SIDES HAVE A NARROW BORDER OF GILT LEAVES AND DOTS FOL- 
LOWED BY A BROAD INSIDE BORDER OF THE SAME, WHICH IS SET 
OFF BY RED INLAID LEAVES ; MANY INLAID RED DOTS ON THE GREEN 
BACKGROUND FORM A BORDER AROUND A DIAMOND-SHAPED PANEL 
OF DARK GREEN LEVANT IN WHICH ARE FOUR GILT CIRCLES IN- 
LAID WITH RED AND BROWN LEAVES; DOUBLURE OF REDDISH- 
BROWN LEVANT GILT TOOLED WITH A SIMPLE PANEL DESIGN; 
GILT TOP, UNCUT, BY THE GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS. 

Lond.: George Bell, 1902 


* A superbly bound book, printed throughout on Japan vel- 
lum, the edition of which is limited to 125 copies. This is No. 
101. Many of the illustrations are printed in red and black. 


82. BINDING.—Doueet (Jérome). Petrone. (Introduc- 
tion et Fragments.) 8 etchings by Lesueur, after Fourner. 
8vo, full brown crushed levant morocco extra, a spray of 
leaves in olive green levant, with two flowers in light 
brown levant, within gold lines inlaid on the lower part of 
the front cover, gilt inside borders, gilt top, uncut, by 
KIEFFER. Paris, 1902 

* Only 225 copies printed. A simple but very effective speci- 
men of modern binding. 

83. BINDING.—Wordsworth (William). Poems of 
Wordsworth, chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold. 
Golden Treasury Series. Portrait. 16mo, full sage green 
crushed levant morocco, each side having six roses in full 
bloom, inlaid with red levant morocco, with accompaniment 
of leaves of different sizes, back inlaid with one rose and 
leaves to match, ornate inside borders, with cream-colored 
silk linings, gilt edges. Lond. 1904 


* A most attractive example of modern bookbinding, exe- 
cuted by Ramage of London. 


84. BINDING.—Palgrave (Francis). The Golden Treas- 
ury, selected from the best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the 
English Language. 16mo, beautifully bound by RAMAGE of 
London in full dark maroon crushed levant morocco, both 
sides tooled to an unusual design comprising two large cir- 
eles, which are intertwined, and having inlays of green 
levant, with outer tooled borders, back tooled and inlaid 
to match, gilt edges, white watered silk linings and with 
doublure of the same. Lond. 1906 


PRINTED AT THE DOVES PRESS AND BOUND! BY COBDEN 
SANDERSON, 


85. BINDING BY COBDEN SANDERSON. Essays by 
Ralph Waldo Emerson. With Preface by Thomas Carlyle. 
The finely printed Doves Press edn. 8vo, bound in full 


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ee 


a 


erimson crushed levant morocco, with a Grolieresque de- 

sign on each side, richly tooled back, inside borders, gilt 

edges. Bound at the Doves Bindery by C.(OBDEN) S.(AN- 

DERSON), 1908. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1906 
* A handsome specimen of bookmaking and bookbinding. 


A RARE AND MAGNIFICENT EDITION OF BOETIUS BOUND 
BY ROGER PAYNE. 

86. BOETIUS. De Consolatione Philosophis, cum com- 
mentario 8S. Thome de Aquino. The text beautifully printed 
in Gothic character to long lines and the commentary in two 
columns. 138 unnumbered leaves (including 8 blanks) with- 
out signatures and catchwords,; 34 lines for the text and 47 
for the commentary. [Colophon]: Anicii (sic) Torquati 
Seuerini Boecij viri no | minis celebritate qomemorandi: 
textus de ; ph’ie osolacdne: cum edicdne qomentaria beati | 
Thome de Aquino ordinis pdicato2f: An | thonii Coburgers 
ciuis inclite Nurnber- | gensii vrbis industria fabrefactus 
finit fe- | liciter Anno Meccelxxvj pdie Idus Noué | bris. 
Folio, FULL RUSSIA, panelled sides, with blind tooled bor- 
ders, blind tooled back, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by 
ROGER PAYNE. Nurnberg, A. Coburger, 1476 


*ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND RAREST EDITIONS OF THE 
MOST IMPORTANT AND FAMOUS OF THE WORKS OF BOBETIUS. 
Gibbons justly describes it as ‘‘a golden volume, not unworthy 
of the leisure of Plato or Cicero, but which claims incompara- 
ble merit from the barbarisms of the times and the situation 
of the author.” It was a favorite book of the Middle Ages, 
and deserves to be a favorite still. It was during his confine- 
ment in prison that Boetius wrote this famvus work. THE 
ABOVE EDITION IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF TYPOGRA- 
PHY EVER ISSUED FROM THE PRESS OF COBURGER, CELE- 
BRATED FOR THE BEAUTY OF ITS GOTHIC TYPES. A VERY FINE 
AND UNUSUALLY LARGE COPY, and the first to be offered at 
public auction in this country. Hain-Copinger, 3370; Proctor, 
1971; Pellechet, 2513. From the Dogmersfield Library. 


PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRADFORD IN 17138. 


87. BRADFORD IMPRINT. Leeds, 1713. The Ameri- 
ean Almanack for the Year of Christian Account 1713. 
Unto which is Numbered 


From ( By the Orients & Greek Christians F221 
the By the Jews, Hebrews and Rabins 5473 
Creation ( By the late Computation of W. W. 5722 


Being the first after Leap Year. By Daniel Leeds, Philo- 
mat. 12mo, full red crushed levant morocco. 
Printed by Will Bradford in New York, 1713 


*These early Almanacs are among the rarest of Bradford 
imprints. The lower corners of some leaves have been ex- 
tended; a little text lacking on the last leaves. 

In the ‘‘Chronology of things memorable in America”’ it is 
stated that it was then fifteen years since ‘‘ The last hard 
Winter, when Men and Horses at N. York & Philadelphia, 
went over the Rivers on the Ice till the 4th of March.”’ 


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88. BRINSLEY (JOHN).  Virgil’s Eclogues, with his 
Booke de Apibus, concerning the Government and Ordering 
of Bees: translated gramatically, and also according to the 
proprietie of our English tongue, so farre as Grammar and 
the verse will permit, written cheifly for the good of 
Schooles, to be used according to the directions in the pre- 
face to the painfull schoole-master, and more fully in the 
Booke ealled Ludus Literarius, or the Grammar Schoole. 
Chap. 8. FIRST EDN. 4to. full purple levant morocco 
extra, the sides tooled to a symbolic design of bees, in the 
centre is a five sided panel the shape of a cell of honey- 
comb, upon this is tooled a beehive in gilt pointillé from 
which small bees, in gilt, are issuing; from the five points 
of panel stream pointillé lines which form a design and 
terminate at each outside corner in gilt clover leaves, the 
portion of sides not treated by tooling, inlaid in dark green. 
By RIVIERE. Lond. 1633 


* A VERY ORIGINAL AND BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF THE 
MODERN ART OF BOOKBINDING, ; 


89. BRITISH ESSAYISTS. With Prefaces Historical 
and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers. Portraits 45 
vols. 16mo, calf (skillfully rebacked). Lond. 1817 

* The set consists of The Tatler, 5 vols.; Spectator, 10 vols. ; 
Guardian, 3 vols.; Rambler, 4 vols.; Adventurer, 3 vols. ; 
World, 4 vols.; Connoisseur, 3 vols.; Idler; Mirror, 2 vols. ; 
Lounger, 2 vols.; Observer, 3 vols.; Looker-On, 4 vols.; General 
Index. 


90. BROWNE (SIR THOMAS). Hydriotaphia, Urne- 
Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately 
found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus, 
or the Quincunciall Lozenge, or Net-Work Planta- 
tions of the Ancients, Artifically, Naturally, Mystically 
Considered. By Thomas Browne. 2 plates. 12mo, old 
calf. Lond.: Printed for Hen. Brome at the Signe of the 
Gun in Ivy-Lane, 1658. 


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Colophon. 

In the dedication the author says: ‘‘ Who knows the fate of 
his bones, or bow often he is to be buried?” <A curious com- 
mentary on this is that the remains of Sir Thomas Browne him- 
self, after having been buried in 1682, were accidently dug up 
nearly 200 years afterwards in 1840, when his skull was appro- 
priated by the sexton, and is now in the Norfolk and Norwich 
Hospital! 


CHOICE EXAMPLE OF CHARLES MEARNE’S BINDING. 


91. BROWN (SIR THOMAS). The Works of the learned 
Sir Thomas Brown, Kt., Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich, 
containing: I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. 
II. Religio Medici; with annotations and observations upon 
it. Ill. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn Burial: together with the 
Garden of Cyprus. IV. Certain Miscellany Tracts. With 


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THE 


Holy War, 


MADE BY 


SHADDAITI 
UPON 
DIABOLUS, 
For the Regaining of the 
Metropolis of the World. 
OR, THE 
Lofing and Taking Again 
OF THE 


Town of Manfoul. 


By fOHN BUNT AN, the Author of the 
Pilgrims Progref. 


| Ehave ufed Similitudes, Hof.12.10, 
is | 
EOND® N, Printed for Dorman Nevoman at the Kings | 
: ems in the Posltry; and Berzamin Alfop ac the 


| 
Angel and Bible in the Positry, 1682. : 
: ona - ‘ 


[BuNyAN. THE Hoty War. First EDITION, 
SEE No. 100.] 


*% 


Alphabetical Tables. Fine engraved portrait of the author, 
by R. White. Folio. CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BINDING, 
in dark morocco extra, gilt, outer narrow and line dentelle 
borders in the sides; inner border formed of rococo toolings 
with pointillé scrolls heightened with silver; large inner 
panel formed of fifteen compartments, each filled with 
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dots, richly heightened with silver, gilt back, gilt edges, by 
CHARLES MEARNE. 
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* FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. AN IMPORTANT BOOK IN A BIND- 
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THE WORK. 


92. BROWNING (ROBERT). Bells and Pomegranates. 
COMPLETE SET OF EIGHT PARTS, ALL FIRST EDNS. Large 
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on which is written, IN BROWINING’S AUTOGRAPH: ‘‘ The Rev. 
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with R. B.’s affectionate respect and regard.” 


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on this leaf. July 12,73.” 

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presented: ‘‘Read to me by Mr. Browning, June 15, 1888,” 


BROWNING’S OWN PROOF COPY. 


95. BROWNING (ROBERT). The Ring and the Book. 
THE PROOF COPY, WITH BROWNING’S REVISIONS. 4 vols. 
in 2. Crown 8vo and folio, cloth. Lond. 1868 


* THE PROOF COPY WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONAL LINES 
IN MS. WHICH BROWNING REVISED FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN 
EDITION. INSERTED IS A FOUR-PAGE LETTER FROM BROWNING 


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TO MoncurE D. Conway, dated Oct. 30, 1868, ARRANGING FOR 
THE AMERICAN PUBLICATION, IN WHICH BROWNING GOES AT 
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penetrating the labyrinth of Browning’s mind than is possible 
in any other way. 


96. BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI). I] Decamerone nuova- 
mente corretto et con diligentia stampato. Firenze, heredi 
di Philippo Giunta, 1527. Facsimile Reprint of the famous 
Giunta Edition of 1527, called also ‘‘ Ventisettana.’’ 4to, 
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Heinsii; longe auctioribus. 8vo, original vellum. 

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37 


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101. BUNYAN (JOHN). The | Hoty Wa4rR, | made by | 
Shaddai | upon | Diabolus, | For the Regaining of the | 
Metropolis of the World. | or, The | Losing and Taking 
Again | of the | Town of Mansoul. | (line) | By John Bun- 
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38 


“ 


. 


ee eee 


owe 


ppremeneiocneee 


[SHELTON. Don QuicHoTE. First ENGLISH TRANSLATION, 1620. 
SEE No, 113.] 


102. BURNS (ROBERT). Poems chiefly in the Scottish 
Dialect. With a fine portrait after Nasmyth, engraved by 
Bengo. First issue of the first Edinburgh edition. 8vo, 
full crimson levant gilt, gilt edges, in cloth slip-case, by 
_ RIVIERE. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1787 


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The Caledonian Hunt.” This isthe rare first issue (two were 
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103. BUTLER (SAMUEL). Hudibras. The Third and 
Last Part. Written by the Author of the First and 
Second Part. Crown 8vo, contemporary or original calf. 

Lond. 1678 


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George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor. 8vo, full dark blue 
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of Lennox, Dd.; To the Lord Treasurer, Dd 2; To the Earl of 
Northampton, Ee; To the Countess of Bedford, Ee 2; Against 
the Enemies of Humanitie, Ee 3; To the Lord Lisle, Ee 4; To 
the Earl of Southampton, Ff. 

THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TWELVE BOOKS OF THE ILIAD, 
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE SEWELL CoPyY (with mounted title), 
AND THE LEFFERTS COPY, THE ONLY COPY OF THIS RARE EDITION 
TO BE OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. The Lef- 
ferts copy sold for one hundred and twenty dollars. 


(3.) The Tliads of Homer, Prince of Poets. Never before 
in any language truely translated. FIRST EDITIONS OF BOOKS 
THIRTEEN TO TWENTY-FouR. Engraved title by W. Hole. At 
London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, n. d. [circa 1611]. 


FINE copy, containing 19 sonnets to noble patrons, 8 of which 
appear for the first time. The sonnets addressed to Arabella 
Stuart, Lord Wotton, and the Earl of Arundell are suppressed 
in this volume. 

Collation: *; A-Z and Aa-Ff, all in sixes; Gg, ten leaves 
(last blank). Engraved title, *; To the High borne Prince 
Henries, *2-4 (misprinted A4); To Anne, Queene of England, 
*5- To the Reader, *6-A2; The Preface to the Reader, A3-A5; 
Faults escaped, A6; the work, p. 1 to 342 (last page unnum- 
bered) ; To the Duke of Lennox, Gg 4; To the Earle of North- 
ampton, Gg5; To the Lord of Lisle, Gg6; To the Earle of 
Southampton, Gg7; To Viscount Cranborne, Gg8; To Sir Ed- 
ward Phillips, Gg9. 

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE TWENTY-FOUR BOOKS OF THE 
Turap. THE THomas J. McKee copy (cut down and with 
mounted title) IS THE ONLY OTHER COPY OF THIS RARE WORK 
OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. 


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(4.) Homer’s Odysses. First EDITION. Engraved title-page 
containing full-length figures of Homer, Pallas and Ulysses. 
London: Inprinted at London by Rich. Field for Nathaniell 
Butter, n. d. [circa 1612-14]. 

FINE copy, small portion of blank margine of title mended. 
This is the only edition in which both the engraved and printed 
titles are found together. 

Collation: Engraved title-page, one leaf; A-Q, in sixes, Al 
blank; R, eight leaves, R8 blank; S-Z and Aa-Hh, in sixes;Ji, 
eight leaves, 8 blank. c 

Blank leaf, Al; Engraved title-page, one leaf; Printed title, 
A2; To the Earle of Somerset, A3-A6; The Odysses, pp. 1 to 
378 (pp. 377-378 unpaged). 

THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ODYSSEY COMPLETE. 

THE FOOTE COPY, WHICH IN 1895 SOLD FOR ONE HUNDRED AND 
EIGHTY DOLLARS, IS THE ONLY OTHER COPY OFFERED FOR SALE IN 
THE AMERICAN AUCTION ROOMS. 


(5.) The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets. Engraved title 
by W. Hole. At London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, n. d. 
Homer’s Odysses. Engraved title-page. Imprinted at London 
by Rich. Field, for Nathaniell Butter, n. d. [circa 1613-14]. 
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY IN ONE 
VOLUME. 

The three sonnets printed on the two unpaged leaves at the 
end of the first edition are suppressed in this edition 

Collation: Iliads: *, A-Z and Aa-Ff, in sixes; Gg, eight 
leaves (Gg8 blank). Odyssey: A-Q, in sixes (A blank); R 
eight leaves (R8 blank); S-Z and Aa-Hh in sixes; Ii, eight 
leaves (1i8 blank). 

Engraved title-page to Iliad, *1; To the Highborne Prince, 
*2-*4; To Anne, Queene of England. *5; To the Reader, *6-A2; 

The Preface to the Reader, A3-A5; Faults escaped, A6. The 
Tliads, pp. 1 to 342 (last page unnumbered); To the Duke of 
Lennox, Gg 4; To the Earles of Northampton, Gg5; To the 
Lord Lisle, Gg6; To the Earles of Southampton, Gg7. En- 
graved title-page to Odyssey, A2; To the Earle of Somerset,. 
A3-A6. The Odysses, ete., pp. 1 to 378 (last leaf unnumbered). 

FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY 
ISSUED IN ONE VOLUME, BEFORE THE GENERAL TITLE WAS EN- 
GRAVED AND BEFORE THE MEMORIAL PLATE TO PRINCE HENRY WAS 
DESIGNED. 


(6.) The Whole Workes of Homer, Prince of Poetts, in his 
Tliads, and Odysses. Engraved title by W. Hale, with full-page 
portrait of Chapman on the Verso. Engraved memorial plate 
to Henry, Prince of Wales. At London: Printed for Nathaniell 
Butter, n. d. (1616). THE FIRST EDITION WITH THE RE-ENGRAVED 
TITLE-PAGE HAVING THE PORTRAIT OF CHAPMAN (DATED 1616) ON 
ITS VERSO, AND THE FIRST EDITION CONTAINING THE FINE ME- 
MORIAL PLATE TO PRINCE HENRY. 

Collation: Engraved title and memorial, 2 11. unsigned; 
*2-*6, 5 11.; A-Ff, in sixes; Gg, eight leaves (Gg8 blank) ; 
A-Q, in sixes (Al blank); R, eight leaves (R8 blank); S-Hh, 
in sixes; Ii, eight leaves (1i8 blank). 

Engraved title by W. Hole, with the portrait of Chapman on 
verso, one leaf; Engraved plate, ‘‘To the Mortall Memoire of 
Henry, Prince of Wales’’ (verso blank), one leaf; To the high- 
borne Prince Henrie, *2-*4 (misprinted A4); To Anne, Queere 
of England, *5; To the Reader *6-A2; The Preface to the 
Reader, A3-A5; Faults escaped, A6; The Iliads, pp. 1 to 342 
(last page unnumbered) ; To the Duke of Lennox, Gg4; To the 
Earl] of Northampton, Gg5; To Lord Lisle Gg6; To the Earl of 
Southampton, Gg7. Engraved title, ‘‘ Homer’s Odysses,’’? A2; 


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To Robert, Earl of Somerset, A3-A6; The Odysses, pp. 1 to 378 
(last leaf unnumbered). 

There are only 16 sonnets in this issue. FINE copy. 

THE WILLIAM HARRIS ARNOLD COPY, which contained MS. 
notes by Coleridge, SOLD FOR SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE DOL- 
LARS. Several copies seem to have been offered for public sale 
in this country, but they were mainly imperfect, some with 
titles mounted, ete. 

(7.) The Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts, in his 
Iliads and Odysses. Fine engraved title-page by William Hole 
and engraved memorial plate to Prince Henry. At London: 
Printed for Nahaniell Butter, n. d. [circa 1620]. - 

THE SECOND EDITION OF THE COMPLETE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY 
UNDER THE TITLE OF ‘‘THE WHOLE WorKS.’’ The setting up 
of this edition is entirely different from the first. New initial 
letters and ornaments are used, and the whole book is printed 
on different paper. It is the first issued with the engraved 
title-page with the verso plain, the first edition having the por- 
trait of Chapman engraved on it. It is also the first edition 
with a printed title-page to the Odyssey. The leaf A6 is blank 
in this edition; in the former it had the ‘‘Errata’’ printed on 
it. Though this errata is omitted none of the errors are cor- 
rected and this edition is a word for word reprint of the former 
issue. Fore-edge of title mended. FINE Copy. 

Collation: Engraved title and memorial plate 2 11. unsigned; 
*2-*6, 5 11.; A-Ff, in sixes (A6 blank); Gg, eight leaves (Gg8 
blank); A-Q, in sixes (Al blank); R 8 leaves (R8 blank); 
S-Hh, in sixes; li, eight leaves (li8 blank). 

Engraved title-page by W. Hole, without the portrait of Chap- 
man on verso, which is blank, one leaf. Engraved memorial 
plate to Prince Henry, one leaf; To Prince Henry, *2-*4; To 
Queen Anne, *5 (verso blank); To the Reader, *6-A2; The 
Preface to the Reader A3-A5; The. Iliades, pp. 1 to 342 (last 
page unnumbered); To the Duke of Lennox, Gg 4; To the 
Earle of Northampton, Gg5; To the Lord Lisle Gg6; To the 
Earle of Southampton, Gg7. Title-page ‘‘Homer’s Odysses, 
translated according to the Greeke, by George Chapman. Lon- 
don: Printed for Nathaniell Butter,’’ A2; To the Earle of 
Somerset, A3-A6; The Odysses, pp. 1 to 378 (last leaf unnum- 
bered). 

This edition contains 16 sonnets, the same as the previous 
edition. 


(8.) The Crowne of All Homer’s Workes, Batrachomyomachia ; 
or, The Battaile of Frogs and Mise, His Hymn’s and Epi- 
grams. Translated according to ye Original, by George Chap- 
man. First EpITion. Fine engraved title by Will Pass, con- 
taining portraits of Homer and Chapman. London: Printed 
by John Bill, his Majesties Printer, n. d. [circa 1624]. 

FINE copy. Blank margin of title mended. 

Collation: Engraved title, one leaf; { and A-z, in fours; Aa, 
two leaves. Engraved title-page in compartments, at top a 
half-length figure of Homer being crowned by Apollo and Min- 
erva, at the bottom an oval portrait of Chapman, etc., one leaf; 
To the Earle of Somerset, {-7 3; The occasion of this Impos’d 
Crowne, § 4; Batraxomyomaxia, pp. 1-17, A-Cl (verso blank) ; 
Al the Hymes of Homer, A Hymne to Apollo (pp. 19-49), 
C2-G1 (verso blank); A Hymne to Hermes (pp. 51-87), 
G2-L4 (verso blank); A Hymne to Venus (pp. 89-106), M-01; 
To the same (pp. 107-108), 02; Bacchus (pp. 109-113), 03-P1 
(verso blank); To Mars, ete. (pp. 115-127), P2-Q4 (verso 
blank); To Pan, ete. (pp. 129-135), R-R4 (verso blank); To 
Jove, ete. (pp. 137-141), S-S3 (verso blank); To Diana (pp. 
143-148, sic), S4; To Pallas, ete. (pp. 149-161), T-V3 (verso 


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blank); Certaine Epigrammes (pp. 163-169), V4-X3 (verso 
blank) ; To Neptune (pp. 171-172), X4 (verso blank); To the 
Cittie Erythrea, etc. (pp. 173-177), Y-Y3 (verso blank) ; Writ- 
ten on the Counsaile Chamber (pp. 179-180), Y4 (verso blank) ; 
The Fornace call’d to to sing by Potters (pp. 201-203), Z-Z2 
(verso blank); Eiresione, or the Olive Branch, ete. (pp. 205- 
207), Z3-Z4 (verso blank) ; The Worke that I was borne to doe, 
is done (unpaged), Aa-Aa2. 

(9.) The Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts, in his 
Iliads and Odysses. THE FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTED EDITION 
IN ONE VOLUME OF ALL CHAPMAN’S TRANSLATIONS OF HOMER, 
INCLUDING THE ‘‘ BATRACHOMYOMACHIA’’? AND THE ‘*‘ HYMNES.?? 
Engraved title-page by W. Hole. At London: Printed for Na- 
thaniell Butter, n. d. [circa 1625]. 

This is the Third Edition of the ‘‘ Whole Works’? and has 
the second printing of the Iliad. All the title-pages are can- 
celed, with the exception of the general title at the beginning. 
A few leaves soiled, otherwise a FINE COPY. 

Collation: Engraved title and memorial plate, two leaves un- 
signed; *2-*6, five leaves; A, 511.; B-Ff, in sixes; Gg, eight 
leaves (Gg8 blank); A-A, in sixes (Al and A2 blank); R, eight 
leaves (R8 blank) ; S-Hh, in sixes; Ti, eight leaves (Ii 8 blank) ; 

, four leaves; A-Z, in fours; Aa, two leaves. 

It is almost impossible to find many of these works complete 
and it has taken several years to perfect this set. THE ONLY 
COMPLETE SET EVER OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION and probably 
the only one ever assembled. 


THE RARE FIRST EDITION. 


116. CHAPMAN (GEORGE). The Georgicks of Hesiod, 
by George Chapman. Translated elaborately out of the 
Greek, containing Doctrine of Husbandrie, Moralitie, and 
Pietie; with a Perpetuall Calendar of good and bad Daies, 
not superstitions, but necessarie (as farre as natural causes 
ecompell) for all men to observe, and difference in following 
their affairs. Small 4to, green levant morocco extra, blind 
tooling on sides, gilt edges, by J. FAUKENER. 

Lond.: H. L., for Miles Patriarch, 1618 


* First EpITIon of this important and exceedingly rare 
volume, dedicated ‘‘To the most Noble combiner of Learning 
and Honour, Sir Francis Bacon.” It contains commendatory 
poems by Michael Drayton and Ben Jonson. THIS BOOK IS SO 
RARE THAT ITIS BELIEVED THAT ONLY THREE OR FOUR COPIES 
ARE PRESERVED, and its very existence was doubted by 
Warton. Corner of title neatly mended, with two letters re- 
stored, otherwise A LARGE AND VERY FINE Copy. From the 
Inglis Library. 


117. CLINTON and CORNWALLIS. The Narrative 
of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, relative to his Conduct 
in North America, particularly to that which respects the 
infortunate Issue of the Campaign in 1781; An Answer 
to that part of the Narrative of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry 
Clinton which relates to the Conduct of Lieut.-Gen. 
Karl Cornwallis, during the Campaign in 1781, by Earl 
Cornwallis (with rare slip of ‘‘ Errata’’); Observations on 
some parts of the Answer of Earl Conwallis to Sir Henry 
Clinton’s Narrative, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, with 


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the Crofle-keyes,neare Pasls wharffe. 


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Appendix containing the Extracts of Letters and other 
Papers. 3 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in full sprinkled 
ealf, gilt, uncut, gilt tops. Lond.: J. Debrett, 1783 


* FINE LARGE UNCUT copies in choicest condition of these 
scarce books. 

Sir Henry Ciinton acquits himself of all share in Lord Corn- 
walis’ misfortune, leaving that General to answer for miscon- 
ceptions of the orders sent him, and for the choice of the post he 
was reduced to surrender. Cornwallis’ answer consists of the 
correspondence between the two commanders to prove that 
‘‘the conduct and opinions of the author were not the cause of 
the catastrophe which terminated the campaign of 1781.” 


118. COLDEN (CADWALLADER D.). Memoir, pre- 
pared at the request of a Committee of the Common 
Council of the City of New York and Presented to the 
Mayor of the Cijy, at the Celebration of the Completion of 
the New York Canals. Pinelyillust. with portraits of Colden, 
Philip Hone, Samuel L. Mitchill, William Paulding, etc., by 
A. B. Durand and others, some early views of New York and 
the Canal, numerous maps (one wmperfect); facsimiles, etc., 
etc. Ato, three-quarter orange crushed levant morocco gilt, 
gilt top, by WALTERS (one leaf a trifle clipped). N.Y. 1825 


* RARE. Contains much valuble information concerning the 
building of the Erie Canal, a description of the country through 
which it runs, and other interesting material relating to N. Y. 
State and City. 


BOOKS WITH COLORED PLATES. 


A Remarkable Collection, including ‘ Dr. Syntax in Lon- 
don,’’ in the Original Parts, a Complete Set of ‘‘ Punch’s 
Pocket Books,’’ Complete Set of the Syntax Tours, in 
Original Boards, etc. 


SEE ALSO UNDER ALKEN, CRUIKSHANK, COSTUME, 
EGAN, ROWLANDSON, ETC. 


FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. 

119. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘ CASTLE OF OTRANTO.”’’ 
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. Transl. by William 
Marshall, from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto. 
8vo, original boards, ENTIRELY UNCUT. Lond. 1800 


* A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS EDITION ON LARGE PAPER. VERY 
RARE. Illustrated with SEVEN BEAUTIFULLY COLORED PLATES, 
all dated 1793, and excellent examples of color printing of the 
period. 


120. COLORED COPY OF HOWITT’S ‘‘ DESIGNS OF 
ANIMALS.’’ Howitt (Samuel). Aight Pleasing Designs 
of Animals: ‘‘The Bear at Bay,’ ‘* Badger-Baiting,”’ 
‘* Mourning,”’ ‘* Reynard’s Revenge,” etc.. etc., ALL ORIG- 
INAL IMPRESSIONS, IN COLORS, Oblong small 4to, full crim- 

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son crushed levant morocco, gilt sides and back and top, 

with original paper label bound in, by WORSFoRD. 
Lond. 18038 
* THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Howitt was brother-in-law to 
Rowlandson, and was closely associated with him in art, 
Howitt’s work, however, was mainly delicately executed with 
a fine needle, and being a practical sportsman his plates are 

most true to nature and very pleasing. 


121. COLORED COPY OF ‘ITINERANT TRADERS 
OF LONDON,’’ Descriptions of the Plates representing 
the Itinerant Traders of London in their original Costume, 
with Notices of remarkable places given in the background. 
A SERIES OF THIRTY-ONE FINELY COLORED PLATES, depicting 
the trades of peddlers, etc. (many of which are now obsolete), 
and including ‘‘ Baking or Boiling Apples,’ ‘‘ Bellows to 
Mend,” ** Brick Dust,” ‘‘ Buy a Bill of the Play,” ** Cals 
and Dog’s Meat,’’ ‘‘ Dust O,” ‘‘ Green Hasteds,” -‘ Hot- 
loaves,’’ *‘ Hot Spiced Gingerbread,’’ ‘‘ Milk below,” ‘‘ New 
Potatoes,’’ etc., etc., by Craig, with descriptive letterpress. 
4to, newly and handsomely bound in three-quarter crimson 
erushed levant morocco, gilt extra, gilt edges, by LLOYD. 

* FINE COPY. EXCEEDINGLY RARE, {Lond. 1804, ete. ] 


122. COLORED COPY. Politics of the Georgium Sidus; 
or. Advice how to become great Senators and Statesmen, 
interspersed with Characteristic Sketches, and Hints on 
various subjects in Modern Politics. By A late Member of 
Parliament. FIRST EDN. Small 8vo, original boards, uncut, 
with the paper label. Lond. 1807 


* FINE copy. Witha large colored folding frontispiece by 
Cook, after Satchwell, depicting an orator speaking to an audi- 
ence ina park.. This plate is in fine condition, as is the whole 
book. 


FINE COPY OF THE RARE ORIGINAL ISSUE. 


123. COLORED COPY OF BUNBURY’S ‘*‘ LUMPS OF 
PUDDING.” Bunbury (H. W.). ‘‘ Lumps of Pudding.”’ 
A large folding PANORAMA IN COLORS, OVER EIGHT FEET IN 
LENGTH, on which are represented 38 figures (both male and 
female) in the various motions of dancing. Most of the 
figures are HIGHLY GROTESQUE, and show the famous 
caricaturist an some of his happiest work. All are by 
H. W. Bunbury and etched by William Heath. The title 
(which is engraved on the plate in script) reads ‘‘ Lumps 
of Pudding.’’ 


‘: What an elegant set... 
What a sweet Toe to Toeing of Slippers and Pumps, 
At the sight my old Drumsticks are ready to Prance, 
There is nothing L love so as seeing Folks Dance.” 


Folio, three-quarter red morocco, lettered on the side. 
Lond. 1811 


* A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF THE RARE ORIGINAL ISSUE, 
OF WHICH WE BELIEVE ONLY ONE other copy has appeared for 
sale in the American auction rooms. 


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124. COLORED COPY OF ‘*SANNALS OF HORSE- 
MANSHIP.’’ Gambado (Geoffrey). Annals of Horseman- 
ship, containing accounts of Accidental Experiments and 
Experimental Accidents, both successful and unsuccessful. 
WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE SEVENTEEN COLORED 
PLATES BY HENRY BUNBURY. Royal 4to, half crimson mo- 
rocco, gilt extra, gilt top, ALL OTHER EDGES UNCUT. 

Lond. 1812 
* FINE Copy. Very rare in uncut state. The plates for this 


edition were all re-engraved. Contains the half-title, usually 
missing. 


125. COLORED COPY OF ‘** THE GLORIOUS PEACE 
OF 1814.’’ An Historical Memento representing the differ- 
ent Scenes of Public Rejoicing which took place the first 
of August in St. James's and Hyde Parks, London, in cel- 
ebration of the Glorious Peace of 1814, and the Centenary 
of the Accession of the Illustrious House of Brunswick, to 
the Throne of these Kingdoms. Royal 4to. IN THE ORIG- 
INAL BOARDS, with leather back, and paper label on side, 
TOTALLY UNCUT. Lond. 1814 


* VERY SCARCE. The work contains SIX FINELY COLORED 
PLATES BY DUBORG, AFTER CLARK, and includes ‘‘ The Tower 
and Fire Works” (with a balloon ascension), ‘‘ The revolving 
Temple of Concord Illuminated,”’ ‘‘The Chinese Bridge Illu- 
minated,’’ etc. 


126. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘ DOCTOR COMICUS.’’ 
The Adventures of Doctor Comicus; or, the Frolies of 
Fortune. A Comic Satirical Poem for the Squeamish and 
the Queen. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. 8vo. ORIGINAL 
HALF CLOTH AND BOARDS, with the label, uncut. 

Lond. [1815] 


* Uncut copies of this flagrant imitation of ‘‘Doctor Syntax 
in Search of the Picturesque” are seldom found. = It is illus- 
trated with fifteen RICHLY COLORED PLATES BY ILLMAN. 


127. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘ ADVENTURES OF A 
POST CAPTAIN.’’ The Adventures of a Post Captain; 
or, Adventures of a True British Tar. By a Naval Officer. 
THE RARE FIRST EDN. Royal 8vo, full crimson calf, orna- 
ments on sides and back, gilt edges on the rough. 

Lond. [1817] 


* UNUSUALLY TALL COPY. The work contains twenty-five 
SPIRITED COLORED PLATES (including the colored title) BY 
WILLIAMS, and is scarce in such fine state. The plates are 
much superior to those in Heath’s ‘‘ Johnny Newcome,” a 
work of asimilar character. Apparently a very early copy, 
having a fault in printing on page 19—part of the first verse 
not having received the ink, although the impress of the 
words is there. 


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A COMPLETE SET OF THE SYNTAX TOURS, IN THE ORIGINAL 
BOARDS, UNCUT, WITH ALL THE LABELS. 


128. COLORED PLATES BY ROWLANDSON. [Combe 
(William)] A Complete Set of the Syntax Tours, as follows: 


The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: 
a Poem. Ninth edn. Lond. 1819 


The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Con- 
solation: a Poem. Third edn. Lond. 1820 


The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife. 
THE RARE FIRST EDN. Lond. 1820 


With THE COMPLETE SERIES OF EIGHTY FINELY COLORED 
PLATES BY ROWLANDSON. 3 vols. royal 8vo, IN THE ORIG- 
INAL BOARDS, TOTALLY UNCUT, WITH ALL THE LABELS. 

Lond. 1819-1820 


* A REMARKABLY FINE AND COMPLETE SET, AND OF SPECIAL 
INTEREST AND RARITY IN THIS MOST UNUSUAL CONDITION. 
Preserved in leather case, with protecting cover of red silk. 


129. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘DON QUIXOTE.’’  Illus- 
trations to Don Quixote. A series of TWENTY-FOUR FINELY 
COLORED PLATES, illustrating the scenes in the life of this 
famous character. Royal svo, original wrappers. 

Lond.: McLean, 1819 


* LARGE PAPER COPY, WITH PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER OF THE 
CHOICE COLLECTION OF COLORED PLATES. Copies in the original 
wrappers are seldom seen. 


130. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘ABEILLARD AND HE- 
LOISA.” Rabelais (Robert—the Younger). A Nineteenth 
Century and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, and Mis- 
fortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa; A Matchless Pair who 
flourished in the Twelfth Century. FIRST EDN. Oontain- 
ing a series of TEN EXQUISITE COLORED AQUATINTS by 
Thurston, etched by Landseer, aquatinted by Lewis. 8vo, 
original printed boards, totally uncut. VERY SCARCE IN 
THIS CONDITION. Lond. 1319 


IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. OF EXTRAORDINARY RARITY 
IN THIS STATE. 


131. COLORED COPY OF “‘SYNTAX IN LONDON.”’ 
The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London; or, The Pleas- 
ures and Miseries of the Metropolis. A Poem FIRST EDN, 
Royal 8vo, COMPLETE IN ORIGINAL EIGHT PARTS, WITH ORIG- 
INAL PRINTED WRAPPERS FRONT AND BACK INTACT (all of 
which advertise other ‘‘ colored plate books ’’ of the period, 
‘‘*New Bon Ton Magazine,”’ ‘‘ Adventures of a Post Captain,” 
etc.), AND TOTALLY UNCUT. Lond.: J Johnston, 1820. 


* POSSIBLY THE FINEST COPY IN EXISTENCE, AND OF THE 
HIGHEST DEGREE OF RARITY IN THIS THE BEST OF COLLECTOR'S 
CONDITION. 

The title places ‘‘ Doctor Syntax’’ (William Combe) as the 
author. He, however, is not the author. The first Syntax 
Tour had appeared in book form after its successful entry in 


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Avckerman’s Poetical Magazine. Asaseparate book it sprang 
into immediate favor and many editions were soon exhausted. 
Its great success was the cause of producing a host of parodies 
and spurious imitations, CHIEF AMONG THEM BEING ‘‘THE TOUR 
oF Doctor Syntax THROUGH LONDON,” 

Preserved in handsome full crimson crushed levant morocco 
solander case, with inner protecting cover of red silk. 


132. COLORED COPY OF ‘“‘DON JUAN.”’’ Thornton 
(Alfred). Don Juan. First EDN. Tilust. with a series of 
31 FINELY COLORED PLATES, representing the adventures of 
this abandoned reprobate and his valet Leporello. 2 vols. 
8vo, half crimson crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt edges, 
by RIVIERE. Lond.: Kelly, 1821-22 


* VERY RARE. The first volume ‘contains the early adven- 
tures of the famous Spanish libertine, Don Juan, in various 
parts of the world; the second, his life in London. 


13838. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘HEALTHFUL SPORTS 
FOR YOUNG LADIES.” St. Sernin (Mademoiselle). 
Healthful Sports for Young Ladies. THE RARE FIRST EDN. 
Illust. by 11 elegant engravings from drawings by J. Du- 
gourc, accompanied by descriptions. Oblong svo, original 
boards, with label on side. Lond.: Ackerman [1822] 


* A FINE copy. The plates are exquisite examples of the 
work of Ackerman, being stipple and printed in colors. 


134. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘STUDIES FROM THE 
STAGE.’’ Studies from the Stage; or, The Vicissitudes 
of Life. THE RARE FIRST EDN. Consisting of TWENTY- 
ONE FINELY COLORED PLATES, 0n which are depicted about 
two hundred and seventy-five figures, mainly executed with 
great humor, and including ‘‘ Grub Street Opera,” ‘‘ Act- 
ress of all Work,”’ ‘‘ All for Love,”’ ‘‘ Maid of the Mill,” 
‘“The Devil to Pay,’’ ‘‘Three Weeks after Marriage,”’ 
‘ Trick to Catch the Old One,’ ‘‘ Measure for Measure,”’ 
‘¢The Rivals,’’? etc. DRAWN AND ETCHED BY WILLIAM 
HEATH. Oblong folio, newly and handsomely bound in 
three quarter crimson crushed levant morocco, lettered on 
the side, gilt top, uncut, with original covers bound in, by 


RIVIERE. Lond.: W. Same [1823] 
* A VERY FINE COPY. 


A COLORED PLATE BOOK OF GREAT RARITY. 


135. COLORED COPY OF ‘“‘THE BRITISH DON 
JUAN.” Coates (Henry). The British Don Juan; being a 
Narrative of the SINGULAR AMOURS, Entertaining Adven- 
tures, Remarkable Travels, ete., of the Hon. EDWARD 
W. MONTAGU, son of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley 
Montagu. Small 8vo, tree calf. Lond. 1823 


* THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE BOOK, with 
the half-title. It contains FOUR SPIRITED AND HIGHLY COLORED 
PLATES depicting scenes in the life of this most noted adven- 
turer and ‘‘ man-about-town.” From his earliest boyhood he 
was given to escapades, many of a very wild character, his 
life reading more like romance than fact. As early as fiv 


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years of age he ran. away from school. In 17838 (then being 20 
years of age) he married a woman in the West Indies much his 
senior, which was a source of great displeasure to his family. 
In 1750-1 London boasted of no more extravagant player at 
the table, or outward display of dress and jewels, than the 
gallant Montagu. His diamond shoe-buckles and snuff-boxes, 
together with his unusual accomplishments of a gentleman of 
the period, made him the most talked of man of the time. He 


was married many times. 
THE WORK IS SO RARE THAT NO COPY OF IT IS MENTIONED IN 


HARDIE's ‘‘ ENGLISH COLORED BOOKS,” 


136. COLORED COPY OF BYRON’S ‘*DON JUAN.” 
Byron (George Gordon, Lord). Don Juan. A new edn. 
WITH THREE FINELY COLORED PLATES. 2 vols. 24mo, newly 
and handsomely bound in full blue crushed levant morocco, 
gilt extra, gilt tops, UNCUT, by Woop. Lond. 1823 


* Fine copy OF A VERY RARE EDITION. It was published by 
T. Dolby and John Hunt, the latter being the printer of ‘The 


Liberal.” . 
Contains the advertisements, which includes many notable 


books. 


137. COLORED PLATES. Matrimonial Ladder (a large 
folding panorama about eight feetin length) depicting mm 18 
scenes the commencement of love, marriage, separation and 
reconciliation, ALL OF WHICH ARE DELICATELY AND RICHLY 
COLORED. The figures are beautifully drawn and most 
graceful. Folded to 8vo and enclosed in its original stamped 
morocco cover, lettered on the side. Lond. 1825 


* A FINE COPY and very rare. This example of English color 
work apparently has never been offered for sale in any American 
auction catalogue. 


1388. COLORED PANORAMA OF ST. JAMES'S PARK, 
LONDON. View of the Mall in St. James’s Park. A large 
FOLDING PANORAMA IN COLORS, depicting the famous Mall, 
with two squads of soldiers in uniform, and various civilians 
an seats, ete. Small 8vo, original pictorial boards, enclosed 
in original board case. Lond. 1830 


* EXTREMELY RARE. It is of the highest interest both on 
account of its depicting the uniforms of the soldiers and its 
unique shape. A large oval hole is cut in the front cover, the 
panorama is let out, and the view seems of the greatest dis- 
tance, the trees at the extreme rear being so placed as to be 
deceptive. This item apparently has never been offered for 
sale in this country before. 


139. COLORED COPY OF RAWSTORNE’S ‘*GA- 
MONIA.’’ Rawstorne (Lawrence). Gamonia; or, The Art of 
Preserving Game, and a New Method of Making Plantations 
and Covers. Explained and Illustrated. THE RARE FIRST 
EDITION. Roy. 8vo, ORIGINAL BINDING of full green morocco, 
richly gilt sides, gilt edges. Lond.: R. Ackermann, 1837 


* UNUSUALLY FINE Copy of a work that.is generally much soiled 
and damaged. It is illustrated WITH FIFTEEN RICHLY COLORED 
AQUATINTS, from drawings by T. J. Rawlins, taken on the spot. 

THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, 


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140. COLORED PLATES BY LEECH AND OTHERS. 
A COMPLETE SET OF PUNCH’S POCKET BOOK. PUNCH’S 
POCKET-BOoK, 1843-1881. Wiuth all the original illusts., 
including 88 folding COLORED PLATES, 39 COLORED TITLE- 
PAGES, about 300 full-page engravings and hundreds of 
woodcuts. These engravings have been executed by the 
most famous caricaturists of therr times, including Leech, 
“ Phiz,” Tenniel, Keene, Sambourne, etc. 39 vols. 12mo, 
all in the original different colored roan bindings with flaps, 
gilt edges (4 of the vols. have a few memoranda pages 
scribbled on and two or three bindings are slightly worn). 
A VERY FINE SET. Lond. 1843-1881 


* THE ONLY COMPLETE SET EVER OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION 
IN ENGLAND OR AMERICA. Two or three so-called ‘‘ Complete 
sets” have been sold in England, but none of these contained 
the EXTREMELY RARE volume for 18438. This volume, which is 
slightly larger than the others, has no folding plate such as 
was published in later editions, and instead of having a colored 
title-page to Part I, it has the title to Part II printed in red 
and black. 

The most prominent features of this set ARE THE COLORED 
PLATES, which are amusing caricatures of the customs of the 
times, and include ‘‘ Progress of Bloomerism,” ‘* Farming for 
Ladies,” ‘‘ Swimming for Ladies,” ‘‘ A Prize Baby Show,” ‘A 
World on Wheels,” etc.; the numerous engravings which 
picture funny incidents and scenes of the day; the hundreds of 
woodcuts by Doyle; and the interesting sketches by the famous 
humorists of England. 


141. COLORED COPY OF ‘“‘HOW HE REIGNED.”’ 
Crowquill (Alfred). How He Reigned, and How He Mizzled. 
A Railway Raillery. FIRST EDN. Oblong 8vo, half crimson 
morocco, gilt top, with original front cover bound in. 

Lond. 1849 


* One of the scarcest books illustrated by ‘‘ Alfred Crowquill” 
(Alfred Henry Forrester). It is not mentioned in the extensive 
list of the works in the Dict. of National Biography. It con- 
tains 26 COLORED PLATES (on eight pages) illustrative of rail- 
way management, one containing a portrait of Queen Victoria. 


142. COLORED COPY OF ‘‘ YOUNG TROUBLESOME.” 
Leech (John). ‘‘ Young Troublesome,’’ or Master Jacky’s 
Holidays, from the blessed moment of his leaving school, 
to the identical moment of his going back home again, 
showing how there never was such a boy as that. THE 
RARE FIRST EDN. With the BEAUTIFULLY COLORED SERIES 
OF PLATES BY JOHN LEECH, showing the various adventures 
he took part in. Oblong 8vo, original printed stiff wrappers, 
gilt edges. Lond. [ca. 1852] 

* EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY. Colored copies are very scarce. 


A VERY FINE COPY OF A RARE WORK. 


143. COPE (ANTHONY). The Hystory of Two of the 
most Noble Captaynes of the World, Annibal and Scipio; 
of their divers battailes and Victories, exceeding profitable 


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to reade. Gathered and Translated into English out of 
Titus Livius and other Authors. §8vo. 
At London: Printed by Willyam How, 1590 


* EXCEEDINGLY RARE. A VERY BEAUTIFUL COPY, bound in 
full brown crushed levant morocco, the sides covered with an 
inlaid pattern of interlaced ribbon scrolls and arabesques, in 
red, black and white, etc., the loops and centre ground-work 
filled in with a diaper of triple dots, richly tooled, in the 
MANNER OF THE LYONES GILT AND ENAMELLED BINDINGS OF 
ABOUT 1550, BY RIVIERE, 


PRINTED ON JAPAN PAPER. ONLY 100 COPIES ISSUED. 


144. CORREGGIO. Ricci (Corrado). Antonio Allegri 
da Correggio: his Life, his Friends and his Time. By 
Corrado Ricci. From the Italian by Florence Simmonds. 
Illust. with 37 full-page plates and 190 text illusts., WITH 
AN EXTRA SET OF THE PLATES, PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. 
3 vols. 4to, half cloth, uncut. Lond. 1596 

* ON JAPAN VELLUM. Only 100 copies printed. 


COSTUME. 


Books and Drawings Illustrating the History and Progress 
of Costume in Various Countries. 


145. COSTUME PLATES. 56 MINIATURES of the XVIII th 
Century of Dutch execution, FINELY PAINTED. ON VELLUM 
in colors (some heightened with gold), and representing 
the various orders of the Church of Rome, with the name 
written in gold under each of them, mounted in a volume. 
Royal 8vo, contemporary English morocco, gilt edges (bind- 
ing slightly rubbed). XVIIIth Century 


* THIS VERY PLEASING AND INTERESTING COLLECTION IN- 
CLUDES AUTHENTIC COSTUMES OF THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS 
ORDERS, MALE AND FEMALE, commencing with the Pope, fol- 
lowed by the Cardinal, Bishop, Priest, Abbot, etc., all being in 
the best state of preservation. AN EXQUISITE VOLUME from 
the library of the Rev. W. Heath, with bookplate. 


146. COSTUME PLATES. The Costume of the Russian 
Empire, illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings. 
With Descriptions in English and French. 73 plates very 
finely colored. Folio, full contemporary straight-grained 
red morocco gilt, gilt edges. Lond. 1804 


147. COSTUME PLATES. The Costume of Turkey, 
illustrated by a series of engravings; with Descriptions in 
English and French. 60 plates very finely colored. Folio, 
full contemporary straight-grained green morocco gilt, gilt 
edges (plate 40 missing). Lond. 1804 


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148. COSTUME PLATES. The Costume and Customs 
of Modern India; from a Collection of Drawings by Charles 
D’Oyley. Engraved by J. H. Clark and C. Dubourg. De- 
scriptions by Capt. Thomas Williamson. 20 plates. Folio, 
straight-grained blue morocco, gilt and blind tooled sides. 
and back, gilt edges. Lond. [ca. 1816] 


* FINE IMPRESSIONS of these accurate costume plates. LARGE 
PAPER COPY. Charles D’Oyley is the author of the well-known 
colored book, ‘‘Tom Raw, the Griffin,” in which he describes 
the life of an Anglo-Indian at the beginning of the XIXth 
century. 


149. COSTUME PLATES. Popular Pastimes, being a 
selection of Picturesque Representations of the Customs 
and Amusements of Great Britain, in Ancient and Modern 
Times, accompanied with Historical Descriptions. 8vo, 
full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt top. Lond. 1816 


* A fine copy of the original issue of this rare work, descrip- 
tive of ‘‘pastimes ” (many of which are now obsolete), includ- 
ing Bull-Baiting, Cock-Fighting, The Fool Plough and Sword 
Dance, Whipping the Cock, etc. Illustrated WITH THIRTY 
COLORED PLATES. 


150. COSTUME PLATES. The Military Costume of 
Turkey; illustrated by a Series of Engravings from draw- 
ings made on the spot. Front. and 30 plates very finely 
colored. Folio, full contemporary straight-grained green 
morocco gilt, gilt edges. Lond. 1818 


151. COSTUME PLATES. Costume of the Lower Orders 
of London. Designed and engraved by T. L. Busby. A 
series of 12 FINELY COLORED PLATES, displaying the cos- 
tumes of several classes of society, some of which have 
now departed from the London streets, and which includes, 
Mechanical Fiddler (a one-arm man, who is playing the 
fiddle with his hook), Mattman, May-Day, Milk-Girl, ete. 
Small 4to, full crimson crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt 
top, by Woop. Lond. 1819 

* FINE COPY. RARE. 


152. COSTUME PLATES. 58 MINIATURES of East In- 
dian Costumes and Manners. Finely painted in various 
colors by a native hand ON MICA, and applied on a painted 
ground, is to give effect to the drawings. Mounted in a 
volume, oblong 4to, calf. [c. 1830] 


* A very fine and unusual collection of the costumes of India, 
and very interesting as they represent nearly all the arts of 
that wonderful country. Among them will be found the 
Washerman, the Tailor, the running footman, bird-catcher, 
seller of tobacco, Weaver, Gardener, Dancing Girl, etc. Each 
drawing has a written explanation underneath. 


153. COSTUME PLATES. Costumes du Moyen-Age 
Chretien, d’aprés des Monumens Contemporains. Par J. H. 
de Hefner-Alteneck. COMPLETE IN 4 VOLUMES, IMPERIAL 
QUARTO, with 420 BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATES, MANY OF 


5d 


WHICH ARE HEIGHTENED IN GOLD AND SILVER, 7m the style 
of the ORIGINAL MINIATURES from which the designs have 
been made, with descriptive text in French. Handsomely 
bound in full brown morocco, blind tooled with a conven- 
tional design in the manner of the Middle Ages, with two 
raised bands of gilt tooling on each volume to simulate 
clasps, inside gilt -borders, gilt edges, each volume within 
a cloth slip case. Franckfort, 1840-1854 


* THIS IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND AU- 
THENTIC WORK ON MEDIASVAL COSTUME, ‘THE INSCRIPTION ON 
THE PLATES IS IN GERMAN, AND INDICATES, THEREFORE, THE 
COLORING IN THE BEST STATE. The designs represent the jewels, 
ornaments, armor and decoration as well as the costume of 
every walk in life, complete in every detail and exquisite in 
coloring. 


154. COSTUME PLATES. Planché (J. R.). Cyclopsdia 
of Costume or Dictionary of Dress; including notices of 
Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent; and a Gen- 
eral Chronological History of the Costumes of the principal 
Countries of Europe, from the commencement of the Chris- 
tian Era to the Accession of George the Third. Vol. I, the 
Dictionary; Vol. II, The General History. Most lavishly 
wlust. with thousands of examples of male and female 
dress, armour, arms, the adjuncts to dress ; every portion 
of bodily attire displayed in plates, SOME COLOURED AFTER 
ANTIQUE PAINTINGS AND ILLUMINATIONS; SOME HEIGHTENED 
WITH GOLD, and an infinite wealth of fine woodcuts. The 
whole derived from the most authentic sources and from 
the most rare and costly authorities. 2 vols. very thick 
royal 4to, half morocco, top edges gilt. Lond. 1876-79 


* Now very scarce, owing to many copies having been 
destroyed in a fire at the publisher’s warehouse. 


155. COTTON (JOHN). The Bloudy Tenant Washed: 
being Discussed and Discharged of bloud-guiltinesse by just 
Defence. Wherein the Great Questions of this present time 
are handled, viz: How farre Liberty of Conscience ought to 
be given to those that truly feare God?, ete. Whereunto is 
added a Reply to Mr. Williams’ Answer to Mr. Cotton’s 
Letter. By Jon Cotton, Batchelor in Divinity, and Teacher 
of the Church of Christ at Boston in New England. 4to, 
old sheep. Lond.: Printed by Matthew Symmons for 
Hannah Allen, at the Crown in Popes Head Alley, 1647. 

* Very scarce. 

To this ‘‘ bloudy ” discourse Roger Williams wrote an answer 
called ‘‘A Bloudy Tenant Yet More Bloudy.’”’ And so ensued 
a fierce war of words and tracts and letters between these two 
‘‘godlie” gentlemen of the ‘‘punishement of Heretickes,” of 
the ‘‘ practices of Princes,” of ‘‘ Anti-Christian Idolatryes ” of 
divers and sundry complaints the one against the other as 


serious and solemn as if the fate of nations hung on the pro- 
ductions from their pens, 


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PRINTED IN LONDON, 1574. 


156. [COVERDALE (MILES).] The Hope of the Faith- 
full. Declaring breefely aud clearly the Resurrection of 
our Lord Jesus Christ past, and of, oure true essentiall 
bodies to come. BLACK LETTER. 16mo, full dark blue 
morocco extra, silver tooled borders on the sides, gilt 
tooled back and inside borders, watered silk linings, gilt 
edges. Lond.: Hugh Singleton, 1574 

* AN EXTREMELY RARE EDITION, AND APPARENTLY UNKNOWN. 
The book was translated from the German of O. Wermueller, 
The name of Coverdale will always be revered as that of the man 
who first made a complete translation of the Bible into English. 

FINE AND LARGE COPY. No copy of this and the following 
have ever been offered at auction in this country. 


PRINTED IN LONDON, 1579. 


157. [COVERDALE (MILES).] A moste fruitefull, 
pithie, and learned treatise, how a Christian man ought to 
behave himselfe in the daunger of death. BLACK LETTER. 
16mo, full dark blue morocco extra, silver tooled borders 
on the sides within gold lines, gilt tooled back and inside 
borders, watered silk linings, gilt edges. 

Lond.: Hugh Singleton [1579] 


* FINE AND LARGE COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE BOOK, 
said to have been written by Lady Jane Dudley, but proved to 
have been translated by Coverdale from the German of Otto 
Vermueller. Contains at the end THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF 
LaDy JANE GREY’S FAMOUS EXHORTATION written the night 
before her execution. 


158. COWPER’S COPY, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH. Gib- 
bons (Thomas). The Hidden Life of a Christian, exempli- 
fied in the Diary, Meditations and Letters of a young Min- 
ister. 12mo, old sheep. Lond. 1756 


* THE POET WILLIAM COWPER’S COPY, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH 
ON THE TITLE-PAGE. BOOKS FROM HIS LIBRARY, WITH AUTO- 
GRAPH, ARE EXTREMELY RARE. 

An interesting feature about this book is that it bears the 
bookplate of the Library of John Sutcliffe, of Olney, Bucks., 
the little town where the poet, when lay-reader to John New- 
ton, the evangelical curate, composed many of his most beau- 
tiful hymns. 


A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF A VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF 
ENGLISH LITERATURE. 

159. CRAWSHAW (RICHARD). Steps to the Temple, 
Sacred Poems, with the Delights of the Muses, by Richard 
Crawshaw, sometime of Pembrok Hall, and late Fellow of 
S. Peter’s Coll., in Cambridge. The Second Edition, 
wherein are added DIVERS PIECES NOT BEFORE EXTANT. 
With the rare engraved fronts. by T. Cross. Newly and 
beautifully bound in full brown crushed levant morocco, 
with centre diamond inlaid in dark blue levant, which con- 
tains a large tulip in blind and gilt, inlaid in two shades of 
crimson levant, the stems and leaves in two shades of green, 
in each corner is a large dark blue tulip in blind and gilt 


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tooling, inlaid with green leaves, the whole worked on a 
ground work of richly powdered heavy gilt dots, ete., by 
RIVIERE. Lond.: Printed for H. Mosely... in St. Paul’s 
Chureh-yard. 1648. 


* A SINGULARLY BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE 
VOLUME, WHICH IS CONSIDERED BY THE BINDERS TO BE ONE OF 
THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF ‘‘ TULIP” BINDING THEY HAVE EVER 
EXECUTED. itis finished after the manner of Le Monnier or 
Padeloup and is most effective. 

This is the genuine second edition, and not the spurious so- 
called second edition which was issued in 1679, owing to the 
popular demand for the author’s writings. The work was 
issued just before Crawshaw left England for Italy, where his 
mysterious death was the cause of much comment at the time. 


160. CREBILLON. Cuvres complétes de Crébillon, nou- 
velle édition, augmentée et ornée de belles gravures. Por- 
trait engraved by Ingouf, and 9 fine plates by Dambrun, 
Dupouchel, Ingouf, Macret and Triére, after Marillier, all 
brilliant impressions. 3 vols. 8vo, old French red morocco, 
gilt panelled covers, gilt backs and inside borders, gilt 
edges, by BRADEL. Paris, 1785 


* EXTREMELY RARE WHEN BOUND IN OLD MOROCCO, ESPECI- 
ALLY IN THE FINEST CONDITION, as the above. 


161. CREECH (THOMAS). The Idylliums of Theocri- 
tus, with Rapin’s Discourse of Pastorals, done into English 
(verse). FIRST EDN. Hingraved front. Small 8vo, red brown 
levant morocco, the sides covered with entwined ribbon, 
centre lettering panel inlaid in dark brown, supported by 
flowing lines and scroll in blind, the loops of ribbon are 
powdered in with gold, by RIVIERE. Oxford, 1684 


* VERY SCARCE. Lowndes gives the date as 1681; but this 
must be an error, as the dedication is dated July, 1684. 

A VERY CHARMING PIECE OF RIVIERE SKILL IN THE ART OF 
BOOKBINDING. 


THE CRUIKSHANKS. 


Books illustrated by the Cruikshank Family, Isaac, George 
and Robert. A very choice collection of the rarer items, 
including ‘‘The Humorist,’’ complete set of the ‘‘Comic 
Almanack,’’ with proofs on India paper, ‘‘Life of Napoleon,’ 
in original boards, Carey’s ‘Life in Paris,” on large paper, 
Westmacott’s ‘‘ English Spy,’’ etc. 


See also under BaRHAM, No. 49; CAULFIELD, No. 112, and EGAN. 


A FINE COPY OF A RARE CRUIKSHANK BOOK. 


162. CRUIKSHANK (ISAAC—Father of George). Wood- 
ward (G. M.). Eccentric Excursions; or, Literary and Pic- 
torial Sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, 


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in different parts of England and South Wales. Inter- 
spersed with curious Anecdotes. THE EXTREMELY RARE 
FIRST EDN. Hmbellished with 100 FINELY COLORED HUMOR- 
OUS PLATES BY WOODWARD, engraved by Cruikshank. Ato, 
finely bound in dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt 
edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1796 
* A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY AMUSING BOOK, 
which satirises the eccentricities of rural and provincial hfe 
in England and Wales at the close of the XVIII Century. The 
first illustration ‘‘ Physiognomical Studies” is a very clever 
combination of characters, and contains 79 figures. 
The tour commenced in Middlesex and ended in Wales. 


CONTAINING A LARGE WOOD ENGRAVING BY CRUIKSHANK, 
SIGNED IN HIS AUTOGRAPH AND UNKNOWN TO 
REID DOUGLAS OR MARCHMONT. 


163. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Phillips (John) Cider; 
a Poem, with Notes Provincial and Explanatory. ..Method 
of making Cider. With fine engraved title and printed title. 
8vo, half calf. Lond. 1791 


* UNIQUE COPY HAVING INSERTED A LARGE WOOD ENGRAVING; 
—a cider-making scene, with the squire and his friends drink- 
ing one another’s health, trees, horse, cider press, etc , in back- 
ground, EXECUTED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, AND SIGNED IN HIS 
AUTOGRAPH IN INK ‘‘G. Ck.” A CRUIKSHANK ITEM OF GREAT 
RARITY, BEING UNKNOWN TO REID, DOUGLAS, OR MARCHRMONT, 
all authorities on the work of the great illustrator. 


A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION 
IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. 


164. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Combe (William). 
The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Can- 
tos. Hmbellished with 80 engravings, ALL IN COLORS, by 
G. Cruikshank. Royal 8vo, ORIGINAL BOARDS, TOTALLY 
UNCUT, AND WITH THE EXTREMELY RARE FEATURE OF HAV- 
ING THE PAPER LABEL. Lond. 1815 

* A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDI- 
TION, AND IN THIS MOST DESIRABLE OF STATES OF GREAT 
RARITY. This isthe genuine first issue, with the title dated 
1815, some copies with the title dated 1817 having been offered 
for sale as the first edition. 

Preserved in a handsome full crimson crushed levant mo- 
rocco solander case, tooled with acrowned ‘‘N” in panels on 
back, and with inner protecting cover of red silk. 


165. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Surprising Travels 
and Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen...A 
Voyage to the Moon, The Island of Cheese, ete. W ith a 
folding plate IN COLORS representing Munchausen escaping 
from the lion and crocodile, by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. 
12mo, original blue wrappers, uncut. Lond. [1817] 

* A VERY SCARCE CRUIKSHANK ITEM, ESPECIALLY IN THE 
ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. 


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166. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Humorist, a Col- 
lection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon 
Mots, &ce. 40 deliciously humorous and most beautifully 
designed, etched and colored plates by George Crutkshank. 
First ISSUES THROUGHOUT OF THE FIRST EDITION, having 
Robin’s advertisement on the verso of the lists of plates in 
each volume. 4 vols. 12mo, elegantly bound in full erim- 
son levant morocco, top edges gilt, each protected by a let- 
tered cloth cover, enclosed in case, by WooD. Lond. 1819-20 


* ONE OF THE RAREST GEMS OF A CRUIKSHANK COLLECTION, 

Douglas now says that the dates of the various plates to the 
above volumes as given in his work on Cruikshank, vary so, 
that he has reason to believe that his list is not correct. 


AN UNCUT COPY OF ‘‘ DOCTOR PROSODY.” 


167. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Tour of Doctor 
Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque through 
Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Islands. 
FIRST EDN. Royal 8vo, original boards (back a little worn), 
paper label, UNCUT. Lond. 1821 


* UNCUT COPY WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE 19 FINELY 
COLORED PLATES by C. Williams [AND WITH THE FRONTISPIECE 
BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK], in the manner of- Thomas Rowland- 
son. The fact that the frontispiece is by Cruikshank has been 
recently established beyond doubt by the sale of a copy in 
London, in which this plate is signed in his autograph ‘‘ George 
Cruikshank, del.” The work had long been attributed to 
George Cruikshank, but proof was wanting until now. 


FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 


168. CRUIKSHANK (I. R. AND GEORGE). Egan 
(Pierce). Life in London; or, Day and Night Scenes of 
Jerry Hawthorne, Esq., and his elegant Friend, Corinthian 
Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their 
Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. FIRST EDN. 
Embellished with 36lscenes [IN COLORS | from real life, designed 
and etched by I. R. and G. Crutkshank, also with numerous 
original designs on wood by the same artists. Large 8vo, 
full green crushed levant morocco, gilt top (edges scraped). 

Lond. 1821 


* A FINE COPY, with the half-title, advertisements and sheets 
of music. 


A FINELY BOUND COPY OF THE VERY RARE LARGE 
PAPER EDITION, 


169. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Carey (David). Life 
in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours of 
Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian celebrity, and of his Bang-Up 
companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O’Shuffleton, with 
the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family, includ- 
ing Sketches of a variety of eccentric Characters in the 
French Metropolis. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Hm- 
bellished with the series of TWENTY-ONE CHARACTERISTIC 


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COLORED PLATES, designed and etched by GEORGE CRUIK- 
SHANK, also with twenty-two engravings on wood by the 
same artist. Royal 8vo, handsomely beund in full green 
erushed levant morocco, the back richly tooled and with 
dentelle borders, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1822 
* THE EXTREMELY RARE LARGE PAPER EDITION, WHICH RANKS 
VERY HIGH AS ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE BOOKS OF ITS 
KIND EVER PUBLISHED. THIS COPY CONTAINS THE RARE HALF- 
TITLE, which is usually missing. 
BUT FEW COPIES ON LARGE PAPER HAVE APPEARED FOR 
PUBLIC COMPETITION IN THIS COUNTRY. In none of the books 
illustrated by Cruikshank are the plates more faithful to real 
life than this one, a really extraordinary fact when it is taken 
into consideration that the whole of his French experience was 
crowded into one day spent at Boulogne. 


170. CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT). Comicalities. (A 
Series of 24 FINELY COLORED PLATES, depicting the various 
phases of life and times in the early parts of the XIX cen- 
tury, and including ‘‘A Card Party,” ‘‘A Steam Packet 
Cabin” (very humorous); ‘‘Comforts of a Wife,” ‘‘Pleas- 
ures of Angling,” ‘‘ The Unexpected Visit’? (a chimney 
sweeper emerging from a chimney, very humorous), etc., 
ete.) THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Oblong 12mo, newly 
bound in three-quarter crushed levant morocco, gilt top, 
UNCUT, by RIVIERE. [Lond., ca. 1822] 

* FINE Copy of this excellent collection. A happy combina- 


tion of pictorial satire, etc., by the brother of George Cruik- 
shank, 


WITH CRUIKSHANK’S CHARACTERISTIC AUTOGRAPH ON 
TITLE-PAGE. 


171. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Der Freischutz Trav- 
estie. By Septimus Globus, Esq. FIRsT EDITION. With 
12 etchings [IN COLOR] by George Cruikshank, from draw- 
ings by an Amateur and the original Tale whereon the 
German Opera is founded. 8vo, full crimson crushed le- 
vant morocco, ornate back, gilt edges and inside borders, 
by RIVIERE. Lond. 1824 

* WiTH GEORGE CRUIKSHANK’S AUTOGRAPH (unusually good 
specimen) ‘‘ George Cruikshank, Nov. 22d, 1863” on TITLE- 
PAGE, also IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF CRUIKSHANK the words ‘‘<l- 
fred Crowquill, Alias Forester,” and with a small cross by 


G. C., designating that ‘‘An Amateur” (see title as given 
above) was ALFRED CROWQUILL. 


172. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Peter Schlemihl; from 
the German of Lamotte Fouqué. FIRST EDITION. Wath 
spirited illusts. by Geo. Cruickshank. 12mo, full green 
erushed levant morocco, extra tooled, gilt top, by Root. 

Lond. 1824 
* An edition (the first) was issued in 1823, but the above is 
generally described as the first. 


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173. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Wright (John). Morn- 
ings at Bow Street. A selection of the most Humorous and 
Entertaining: Reports which have appeared in the Morning 
Herald. First EDN. With 21 illustrative drawings by 
George Cruikshank. Lond. 1824 

also 


More Mornings at Bow Street, a new Collection of Hu- 
morous and Entertaining Reports. FIRST EDN. Wath 25 
illusts. by George Cruikshank. Lond. 1827. 


Together 2 vols. 12mo, full green crushed levant morocco, 
with corner ornaments on sides, panelled backs with orna- 
mentation, gilt tops. Lond. 1824-1827 


* FINE COPIES of these entertaining .books, bound by Wood 
of London. The author was for many years the Police-Court 
reporter for the ‘‘ Morning Herald’”’ at Bow Street. 


174. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Greenwich Hospital: 
a Series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a 
Man-of-War’s-Man, by an Old Sailor. 12 fine full-page col- 
ored 4to plates and 16 woodcuts, all by George Cruikshank. 
4to, sheets, uncut, enclosed in cloth case. Lond. 1825 

* Fine copy of this scarce book in choicest condition, both 


text and illustrations being full size and entirely untrimmed. 
Probably unique in this state, 


FINE COPY OF ‘‘THE ENGLISH SPY.” 


175. CRUIKSHANK AND ROWLANDSON COLORED 
PLATES.—Westmacott (C. M.—‘‘ Bernard Blackmantle ’’). 
The English Spy, an Original Work, Characteristic, Satiri- 
cal, and Humorous, comprising Scenes and Sketches in 
every Rank of Society, being Portraits of the Illustrious, 
Eminent, and Eccentric in every Rank of Society. FIRST 
EDN. 2 vols. royal 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in 
full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt extra, gilt edges, 
by RIVIERE. Lond. 1825-26 


* A VERY FINE COPY. One of the most famous works of the 
period, containing 72 finely-colored plates, and numerous 
woodcuts in the text by R. Cruikshank, and with the rare one 
by Thomas Rowlandson. 

The author was a blackmailer, insinuating many things 
against prominent persons, which include George IV and his 
favorite Countess of Conyngham, Charles Kemble (who gave 
the author a tremendous horse-whipping some years after the 
book appeared, and its authorship had been established), Ellis- 
ton, Mme. Vestris, and others of equal note. 

The plate by Rowlandson depicts ‘‘R. A.’sof Genius at the 
Royal Academy” (painting a nude model). 


176. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Barker (Matthew 
Henry). Greenwich Hospital: a Series of Naval Sketches, 
descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War’s-Man. By an Old 
Sailor. FIRST EDN. With 12 exceedingly spirited full-page 


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COLORED PLATES, also 12 woodcuts, all of which are by Geo. 
Cruikshank. 4to, full crimson crushed levant morocco, 
richly tooled back and sides, gilt top. Lond. 1826 


* A FINE Copy of this most interesting and clever work. 
Bound by Wood of London, 


177. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Gentlemen’s 
Pocket Magazine, and Album of Literature and Fine Arts, 
for the year 1827. 12mo, half calf, pp. i-xii; 1-420. 

Lond.: Joseph Robins, 1827 


* VERY RARE. The 24COLORED PLATES comprising the set of 
‘*LONDON CHARACTERS ” were contained in Vols. 1 and 2of this 
publication, Vol. 1 containing 12 by G. Cruikshank, and Vol. 2 
having an additional 3 by G. Cruikshank, together with 9 by 
his brother Robert. THIS VOL., THEREFORE, CONTAINS 12 OF 
THE 15 CHARACTERISTIC PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, and 
which formed the most important feature of the work, as after- 
wards published in separate book form. 


178. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Illustrations of Popu- 
lar Works, by George Cruikshank, Part I (ALL ISSUED). 
LARGE PAPER. A series of six spirited etchings, ALL 
BRILLIANT PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER, and with the letterpress 
on separate pages. Small folio, original printed wrappers. 

Lond. 1830 


*A FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE. ONLY A FEW WERE 
PRINTED ON LARGE PAPER, WITH INDIA PROOFS. 


179. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Three Courses and a 
Dessert. First EDN. The decorations by George Crutk- 
shank. 8vo, full polished calf, extra, gilt top, with adver- 
tisements bound in at the end. Lond. 1830 


180. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Roscoe’s Novelist’s 
Library: a Complete Set, comprising Smollett’s Humphrey 
Clinker, Roderick Random, and Peregrine Pickle; Field- 
ing’s Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia; Goldsmith's 
Vicar of Wakefield; Sterne’s Tristram Shandy; Cervantes’ 
Don Quixote; De Foe’s Robinson Crusoe, and Le Sage’s 
Gil Blas. Edited, with Biographical and Critical Notices, 
by Thomas Roscoe. Illust. with fine steel portraits of the 
authors, a splendid series of 74 spirited full-page etchings 
by George Cruikshank, and several plates on India paper. 
19 vols. post 8vo, half crimson levant morocco, gilt tops. 

| Lond. 1831-33 

* Beautifully printed, cleverly illustrated, and most con- 

venient in size, this edition of the above-named world classics 

has and always will be in demand; and, as the volumes were 

published periodically and sold separately, a complete set is 
now most difficult to obtain. 


181. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Bee and the 
Wasp, a Fable in Verse. First EDN. With four spirited 
illusts. by George Cruikshank. 12mo, original wrappers, 
uncut. | Lond. 1832 


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182. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Sunday in London. 
Illust. in 14 cuts by Geo. Cruikshank, and a few words by 
a friend of his [Charles Dickens], witha copy of Sir Andrew 
Agnew’s Bill. FIRst EDN. Small 8vo, full crimson pol- 
ished calf, extra, gilt top, by ZAEHNSDORF. Lond. 1833 


* A very choice copy. 


1838. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Comic Almanac. 
An Ephemeris in Jest and Ernest. 19 vols. 12mo (Vols. 14 
and 15 are 16mo), Bound by RIVIERE in full crimson pol- 
ished calf, gilt backs, olive labels, gilt tops, original wrap- 
pers bound in. Lond. 1835-53 


* COMPLETE SET, From its commencement to 1853 The 
Comic Almanac contained 70 page engravings and hundreds of 
small cuts, most of them drawn by Cruikshank. From 1844 
to 1853 the work was published by David Bogue, each volume 
having a large folded-in plate, colored. From 1849 to 1852 it 
was edited by Henry Mayhew. and illustrated by Cruikshank, 
Hine, and others, and in 1853 edited by Robert Brough. 

‘<The best criterion of good humour is success, and what a 
share of this has Mr. Cruikshank had! how many millions of 
mortals has he made happy! We have heard very profound 

- persons talk philosophically of the marvellous and mysterious 
manner in which he has suited himself to the time... sup- 
plied a peculiar want felt at a peculiar period, the simple secret 
of which is, as we take it, that he, living amongst the public, 
has with them a general wide-hearted sympathy, that he 
laughs at what they laugh at, that he has a kindly spirit of 
enjoyment, with not a morsel of mysticism in his composition, 
that he pities and loves the poor, and jokes at the follies of the 
great, and that he addresses all in a perfectly sincere and manly 
way. ’—THACKERAY. 

‘‘Stubbs’ Calendar of the Fatal Boots” and ‘‘The Story of 
Barker Cox and the Cutting of his Comb,” by Thackeray, were 
originally issued in the above. 


A SET OF THE CRUIKSHANK COMIC ALMANACKS, WITH 
PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER, 


184. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Another COMPLETE 
SET OF THE COMIC ALMANACKS, 19 vols., ALL IN THE ORIG- 
INAL WRAPPERS (4 VOLS. IN CLOTH AS ISSUED), THE PLATES 
FOR THE ISSUES OF 1835 to 1847, INCLUSIVE, BEING ON INDIA 
PAPER, with 1836 BEFORE THE LETTERS. Several have the 
dates on the covers corrected, and several have a few pages 
loose, BUT THE SET CONTAINS ALL THE BACKS, several being 
very slightly worn. In ease. Lond. 1835-1853 


* COPIES WITH THE PLATES ON INDIA PAPER ARE EXTREMELY 
RARE, FINE SET. 


185. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Comic Alphabet. (An 
exceedingly humourous large folding panoramic series of 
COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS by George Cruikshank.) 12mo, 
original boards. Pentonville, 1836 

* AN IMMACULATE Copy of the scarce First Edition. 


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WITH EXTRA ILLUSTRATIONS. 


186. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). An Essay on the 
Genius of George Cruikshank. By W. M. Thackeray. 
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 87 colored plates 
and etchings, some in colors, and including some choice 
pieces. 8vo, bound by MORRELL in full crimson crushed 
and polished levant, gold line border on sides, back gold 
tooled, raised bands, gilt top. Lond. 1840 


* The original Thackeray article written for the ‘‘ Westmin- 
ster Review,” bound with a specially printed title, etc. 

** Have we not read all the story-books that his wonderful 
pencil has illustrated?” writes Thackeray. ‘‘Did we not 
forego tarts in order to buy his ‘ Breaking up,’ or his ‘ Fash- 
ionable Monstrosities’ of the year eighteen hundred and some- 
thing?” ... ‘‘To be greatly successful as a professional hu- 
mourist, as in any other calling, a man must be quite honest, 
and show that his heart is in his work. . . . Is any man more 
remarkable than our artist for telling the truth after his own 
manner? . . . Cruikshank would not for any bribe say what 
he did not think, or lend his aid to sneer down anything meri- 
torious, or to praise any thing or person that deser ved censure.” 


PRESENTATION COPY OF ‘THE OMNIBUS.” 


187. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). George Cruikshank’s 
Omnibus. Tllust. with 100 engravings on steel and wood 
by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Edited by Laman Blanchard. 
FIRST EDN. (with the Tilt and Bogue imprint). 8vo, ele- 
gantly bound in full crushed levant, gilt top, edges scraped. 
PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. In slip 
cloth wrapper, in cloth case, Lond. 1842 


* A very fine copy, with a most interesting presentation 
inscription: ‘‘To Capt. J. G. Gordon, R.N., with the compli- 
ments of George Crukshank, April 27, 1848.” 


«THE OMNIBUS” IN ORIGINAL PARTS. 


188. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Another copy of George 
Cruikshank’s Omnibus. FIRST EDN. (with the Tilt and 
Bogue imprint), with the characteristic illusts. by George 
Oruikshank. FIRST EDN., COMPLETE IN THE ORIGINAL 
PARTS (19), with all the wrappers and advertisements (backs 

skillfully repaired), uncut, enclosed in a cloth case. 
| * VERY RARE IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. Lond. 1842 


AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH, UNCUT. 


189. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Lever (Charles). Ar- 
thur O’Leary: his Wanderings and Ponderings in many 
Lands. Edited by his Friend, Harry Lorrequer. 3 vols. 
post 8vo, original green cloth, uncut. Lond. 1844 


* AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY OF THE VERY SCARCE First EDI- 
TION. It contains nine spirited etchings by George Cruikshank. 


190. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Bachelor’s Own 
Book, being The Progress of Mr. Lambkin in the Pursuit 
of Pleasure and Amusement, and also in Search of Health 


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and Happiness. THE RARE FIRST EDN. Oblong 8vo, full 
polished calf extra, gilt top, by Woop. Lond. 1844 


* A FINE COPY. One of the most amusing of the many books 
illustrated by the inimitable Cruikshank, Mr. Lampkins’ life 
being depicted by a series of TWENTY-FOUR COLORED PLATES. 

In this copy all the plates are mounted on linen guards, thus 
ensuring perfect opening. 


191. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Tooth-Ache 
imagined by Horace Mayhew and realized by George Cruik- 
shank. A long folding sheet with 43 allusts. by George 
Cruikshank IN COLORS. FIRST EDN. 12mo, original pic- 
torial boards, enclosed in cloth ease. Lond. [1849] 

* COLORED COPIES ARE RARE. A highly amusing production. 


“SANDBOYS” IN ORIGINAL PARTS, 


192. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Sandboys, 1851; or, 
The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family 
Who Came Up to London to Enjoy Themselves and to See 
the Great Exhibition. By Henry Mayhew and George 
Cruikshank. In the 6 Original Parts. With all the Ad- 
vertisements. 8vo, in slip cloth wrapper, enclosed in slip 
cloth case. Lond. 1851 


* A fine copy. Very scarce in the original parts. 


PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ILLUSTRATOR, WITH 
AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION. 


193. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Fairy Library; Hop- 
o’-my-Thumb, and the Seven League Boots. 9 subjects in 
this veracious history, etched on six plates by Geo. Cruik- 
shank. FIRST EDN. and First Issue. Square 8vo, in the 
pictorial covers, as fresh as though but yesterday from the 
press, and preserved in a full green crushed levant morocco 
solander case, with inner protecting cover of silk. 

Bogue, n. d. [1853] 


* Presentation copy from the artist, with his autograph in- 
scription on the blank Recto of the ‘‘ List of Illustrations” — 
‘‘To W. H. Harrison Esq. with the kind regards of Geo. Cruik- 
shank, Oct. 15th 1853.” 

One of the First Issue, having on the back notice of ‘‘ Jack 
and the Beanstalk,” which did not appear on later issues. 


194. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The History of Jack 
and the Bean-Stalk. Hdited and allustrated with six etch- 
ings by George Cruikshank. FIRST EDN. 12mo, original 
wrappers. UNUSUALLY FINE COPY. 

Lond.: David Bogue [1854] 


* Enclosed in full crimson crushed levant morocco solander 
case, with inner protecting cover of red silk. 


195. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Life of Sir John 
Falstaff. With a Biography of the Knight from authentic 
sources by Robert B. Brough. FIRST EDN. With nwmerous 
spirited etchings (also the woodcut sometimes missing) by 


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Geo. Cruikshank. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant mo- 
rocco, richly tooled on back and sides, gilt top, with one 


of the original wrappers preserved. Lond. 1858 
* FINE, TALL COPY, almost uncut, bound by Root and Son of 
London. 


A COMPLETE SET OF CRUIKSHANK’S FAIRY LIBRARY, WITH 
A DOUBLE SET OF THE PLATES, COLORED AND PLAIN, 
FROM THE FAMOUS TRUMAN COLLECTION. 


196. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Fairy Library. Com- 
plete Set. (1) Hop-o’-my-Thumb and the Seven League 
Boots; (2) Jack and the Beanstalk; (3) Cinderella; and (4) 
Puss in Boots. Containing in all 39 subjects on 24 plates, 
twice Over; BEING ONE COLOURED AND ONE PLAIN SET. 
FIRST EDNS. 4 vols. square 8vo, in the original green covers 
with picture on fronts, inserted in a specially made solander 
ease of full crushed levant morocco, with inner protecting 
silk cover. Bogue, n. d., & Routledge, n. d. - 


* A beautiful set; and one which appeals to collectors of 
Dickens as well as to Cruikshank buyers, as there are in the 
two later ones some strong defensive remarks upon a paper by 
Dickens entitled ‘‘ Frauds on the Fairies,” in which Cruik- 
shank’s making temperance capital out of the old fairy legends 
is criticised. 

From the famous Truman collection. 


AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF CRUIKSHANK DRAWINGS. 


197. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). TWELVE ORIGINAL 
SKETCHES by George Cruikshank. With a 1 page Auto- 
graph Signed Letter, with Cruikshank’s elaborate and deco- 
rative signature. The Drawings pasted on the leaves of a 
Serap Book. In slip cloth wrapper, enclosed in slip cloth 
case. 


* These sketches are, for the most part, the first drawings— 
sketch of frontispiece to ‘‘ Worthies of England,” two different 
designs; sketch for Pierce Egan’s ‘‘ King and Constitution,’ 
a crayon drawing; sketch of various hands, faces, figures, etc. ; 
sketch of the Rev. Edward Irving in pencil signed; ‘‘ The Rev. 
Edward Irving sketched from memory by George Cruikshank,” 
a fragment of a very elaborate pen-and-ink sketch. 

Original Cruikshank sketches and drawings are becoming 
exceedingly scarce, and this is an interesting collection. 


COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. 


198. CROWE (J. A.) anD CAVALCASELLE (G. B.). A 
New History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the 
Sixteenth Century, drawn up from fresh materials and 
recent researches in the Archives of Italy, as well as from 
personal inspection of the works of art scattered through- 
out Europe, 3 vols., Lond. 1864-66; A History of Painting 
in North Italy, Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Ferrara, Milan, 
Friuli, Brescia, from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Cen- 


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tury, 2 vols., Lond. 1871; The Early Flemish Painters, 
Notices of their Lives and Works, Lond. 1872; The Life 
and Times of Titian, with some Account of his Family, 
2 vols., Lond. 1881; Raphael, his Life and Works, with par- 
ticular reference to recently discovered records and an 
exhaustive Study of extant Drawings and Pictures, 2 vols., 
Lond. 1882-85. With a large number of illusts. in facsimile of 
the original paintings and drawings. Together 10 vols. 8vo, 
in the original cloth, uneut, as issued. . Lond., v.d., 1864-85 
* An exceedingly handsome and very scarce set. 


199. CROWNED CLASSICS. The Immortals. Master- 
pieces of Fiction crowned by the French Academy. With 
a Preface to each Volume by an Immortal and a General 
Introduction by Gaston Boissier. Edited by Robert Arnot. 
Front. portraits on Japan paper and numerous tllusts. 
20 vols. 8vo, full black morocco, gilt sprays of flowers on 
front covers and backs, silk lining and end papers, gilt 
tops, uncut. Paris: Maison Mazarin, n. d. 

* No. 84 of the limited Caston Boissier Edition. Signed by 
the editor. Among the authors represented in this series are 
Ohnet, Souvestre, Bernard, Malot, Theuriet, Coppée, Claretie, 


De Vigny, Bazin, Halévy, Bentzon, France, Droz, Daudet, 
Loti, De Musset, Bourget, and others. 


200. ANIEL (SAMUEL). The Whole Works of 

Samuel Daniel, Esquire, In Poetrie. Small 

Ato, old calf, red edges. Lond.: Printed by Nicholas Okes 
for Simon Waterson, 1623. 


* THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION OF DANIEL’S WORKS, PUB- 
LISHED AFTER HIS DEATH BY HIS BROTHER JOHN DANIEL, Con- 
tains the Civil Warres, 8 books; A Letter from Octavia to 
Marcus Antoninus, 1823; Funeral Poem upon the Death of the 
Late Noble Earle of Devonshire; A Panegyrike Congratula- 
terie delivered to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, at Bur- 
leigh Harrington in Rutlandshire; Certaine Epistles, with a 
Defence of Rhyme heretofore written and now published 
by the author; Musophilus, containing a General Defence of 
Learning; The Complaint of Rosamond; To Delia (Sonnets); 
The Tragedy of Philotas; Hymens Triumph, a Pastoral Tragi- 
Comedie, Presented at the Q@ueenes Court in the Strand at the 
Nuptuals of the Lord Roxborough; Tke Queenes Arcadia, A 
Pastoral Trage-Comedie presented to her maiestie and her 
ladies by the University of Oxford in Aug., 1605; The Vision 
of the Twelve Goddesses, presented in a Maske at Hampton 
Court; The Tragedy of Cleopatra, . 


201. DAVIES (JOHN). Witte’s Pilgrimage (by Poeti- 
call Essaies) Through a World of amourous Sonnets, 
Soule-passions, and other Passages, Divine, Philosophical], 
Morall, Poetiecall, and Politicall. Small 4to, dark green 
morocco, by LEwIis. At London: Printed for John Browne, 
and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstones Church- 
yard in Fleet-streete [about 1603]. 

* Corser, in his ‘‘Collectanea Anglo-Poetiea,” says of this 
collection: ‘‘ Although the whole of the numerous publications 


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by Davies are considered scarce, this and the Wits Bedlam are 
the two rarest of all his pieces, and have always brought large 
rices when offered for sale.” The present seems, indeed, to 
the identical copy described by him. A portion of the blank 
margin of a few leaves has been supplied, but the copy is a fine 
one. 
The volume includes 101 Love Sonnets, besides other pieces, 
and ‘‘ A Dump upon the death of the most noble Henrie late 
Earle of Pembroke,” beginning: 


** Death, hath deprived me of my deerest friend: 
My Deerest friend is dead, and laid in Grave: 
In Grave He rests untill the World shall end: 
The World shall end, and end shall all things have.” 


Puttenham, more than 300 years ago, called this “‘ the heel- 
treading kind of verse.” 


THE WRITINGS OF DANIEL DEFOE, 


INCLUDING 


“Robinson Crusoe,’’ First Editions, in original calf. 


THE FIRST ISSUE OF ONE OF DEFOE’S MOST CELEBRATED 


WORKS. 


202. [DEFOE (DANIEL).] The True-Born Englishman: 
A Satyr. Small 4to, full red crushed levant morocco, extra 
tooled, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 


{Lond.]: Printed in the Year 1700 


* A PINE COPY OF THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE 
First EDITION OF DEFOE’S CELEBRATED SATIRE. Lowndes gives 
the date of the first edition as 1701, as does Mr. Leslie Stephen, 
in his article in ‘‘The Dictionary of National Biography.” In 
it the author declares that Englishmen are a race of mongrels, 
bred from the off-scourings of Europe in all ages. 

He was very proud of this work (spurious editions of which 
it is said were sold in the streets by hawkers to the extent of 
eighty thousand copies), and in the titles of some of his later 


“writings referred to himself as the author of ‘‘The True-Born 


Englishman.” 


DEFOE’S “‘ ROBINSON CRUSOE.” FIRST EDITION OF ALL 


THREE PARTS, IN ORIGINAL CALF. 


203. [DEFOE (DANIEL).] The | Life | and | Strange 
Surprizing | Adventures | of Ropinson Crusoe, of York, 
Mariner; | Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, | all alone 
in an un-inhabited Island on the | Coast of America, near 
the Mouth of | the Great River of Oroonoque; | Having 
been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where, | in all the Men 
perished but himself. | With | An Account how he was at 
last as strangely deli- | ver’d by PYRATES. | (line) | Writ- 
ten by Himself. | (line) | Lond.: | Printed for W. Taylor, at 


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the Ship in Pater-Noster- | Row, MDCCXIX. With front. 
by Clark and Pine, and the four pages of advertisements 
of books printed for W. Taylor at the end. Former 
owner’s name written inseveral places. THE EXCESSIVELY 
RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDN., with the first page of 
the Preface ending Men 

Always., also 


(Vol. II) The Farther | Adventures | of | Robinson 
Crusoe; | Being the Second and Last Part | of his | Life, | 
And of the Strange Surprising | Accounts of His Travels | 
Round three Parts of the Globe. | (line) | Written by Him- 
self. | (line) | To which is added a Map of the World, in 
which is | Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe. | 
(line. | (vignette | a ship under full sail) | Lond.: Printed 
for W. Taylor at the | Ship in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCXIX. 
With the folding map, and the advertisements (pp. II) of 
books printed by William Taylor. 

The verso of (Aa 4) is blank, also 


(Vol. III) Serious Reflections | during the | Life | and 
Surprising | Adventures | of | Robinson Crusoe; | with his 
| Vision | of the | Angelick World. (line) | Written by 
Himself. | (line), (woodecut—a ship under full sail) | Lond. : 
Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship | and Black-Swan in 
Pater Noster-Row, 1720. With folding plate of Crusoe’s 
- Island by Clark and Pine, and the advertisements atthe end 
of books lately printed for William Taylor. Former owner’s 
name neatly written on title and one joint repaired. 

Lond. 1719-1719-1720 


* FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES AND ALL IN THE 
ORIGINAL CALF. THE ONLY COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL BINDINGS. 
THAT HAS EVER BEEN OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS 
COUNTRY, AND BUT FEW HAVE EVER BEEN OFFERED ELSEWHERE. 
THE EXCESSIVE RARITY (ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION) OF 
““ ROBINSON CRUSOE,’’ IN THE FIRST EDITION IS WELL-KNOWN. 

The last copy sold at auction in this country, ‘‘ Adventures, 
and Further Adventures” only, was sold by this company last 
season for one thousand dollars. They were, however, rebound 
in new morocco. 

The three volumes preserved in a full crushed levant morocco 
solander case, with compartments. 


(See Reproduction.) 


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ie iat 


Lit Ea 


AND 


STRANGE SURPRIZING 


ADVENTURES 


Ook 


ROBINSON CRUSOE, 
Of TORK, MaRIneER: 


Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, 
all alone in an oes Ifland on the 
Coaft of America, hear the Mouth of 

‘the Great River of -OROONOQUE; 


Having been caft on Shore by Shipwreck, where- 
in all the Men perifhed but himfelh 


WITH 


An Account how he was at laft as ftrangely deli- 
ver'd by PYRA TES. 


Written by Himfelf. 


L OUND Om 


Printed for W. T aytor atthe Ship in Pater-Nofter- 
Row. MDCCXIX. 


[Deror. RoBINSON CRUSOE. 3 VOLS. ALL First EDITIONS. 
ORIGINAL CALF. SEE No. 203.] 


SECOND SESSION. 


204. [DE QUINCEY (THOMAS).] Confessions of an 
English Opium-Eater. THE RARE FIRST EDN. 12mo, orig- 
inal BOARDS, skillfully rebacked with paper boards, and 
with MOST OF THE ORIGINAL PRINTED LABEL. Lond. 1822 


* COPIES IN THE] ORIGINAL BOARDS ARE VERY SCARCE. This 
copy contains the half-title and the advertisements. 


DICKENSIANA. 


One of the most remarkable Collections of Books by or 
relating to Charles Dickens ever offered for public sale in 


this country. 
INCLUDED ARE 


First Editions of his Writings (including ‘‘ The Strange 
Gentleman”), some with Original Drawings and extra 
illustrated, Books from his Library, a Presentation Copy 
of ‘‘ Pickwick,’’ Playbills of Dramatizations of his Works, 
etc., etc. 


205. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Keepsake, 1832. 
Edited by Miss Power. With beautifully finished engrav- 
ings. 8vo, original cloth, gilt edges. Lond. 1832 


* Contains the original appearance of Charles Dickens’ ‘‘ To 
Be Read at Dusk.” 


A CHARLES DICKENS RARITY IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE. 


206. DICKENS (CHARLES). To Be Read at Dusk. 
THE VERY RARE PRIVATELY PRINTED FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 
unstitched, uncut, as issued. Lond. 1852 


*Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
case, with inner protecting cover of silk. 


“SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS,” IN THE ORIGINAL 
WRAPPERS. 


207. [DICKENS (CHARLES).] Sunday Under Three 
Heads, as it is, as Sabbath Bills (sic) would make it, as it 
might be made. By Timothy Sparks. Illustrated title and 
other wilusts. by H. K. Browne. 12mo, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, 
back skillfully supplied. Lond. 1836 

* THE EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION AND AN UN- 
USUALLY FINE COPY. Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant 


morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover of red silk 
(by RIVIERE). 


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REMARKABLY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL SHEETS, 
UNCUT AND UNOPENED. 


208. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Village Coquettes; a 
Comic Opera in Two Acts. THE RARE FIRST EDN. 8vo, 
ORIGINAL SHEETS, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, stitched together. 

Lond. 1836 


* A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF THIS RARE DICKENS ITEM. 
The opera was first acted in December, 1886, and it was at its 
performance that John Foster first met Dickens, whose 
biography he so ably wrote in after years. 

Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
case, with inner protecting cover of red silk (by RIVIERE). 


UNIQUE COPY OF ‘‘ PICKWICK” IN PARTS, CONTAINING 24 
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN COLOR BY PAILTHORPE, 


209. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Posthumous Papers 
of the Pickwick Club, containing a faithful Record of the 
Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting 
Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by 
‘* Boz.” With illusts. by Seymour, ‘‘Buss’’ and ‘**Phiz.” 
FIRST EDN. 8vo, IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, uncut. 

Lond. 1836-7 


* UNIQUE Copy, having inlaid to size and inserted the Com- 
PLETE SET of PAILTHORPE’S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, in color, for 
the Pickwick Papers. These drawings are exquisite, and, in 
the opinion of some, excel in fineness of line and real apprecia- 
tion of humor all the other attempts at Dickens illustration 
put together. Only Cruikshank has equalled them in delicacy 
of drawing. The illustrations, which number 24, are as fol- 
lows: ‘‘Can we put this horse up here, my good woman ?”— 
‘‘ What do you think I see in this very arbour last night ?”— 
‘‘Let me get at him, Pickwick!’”—‘ Reception of the Pick- 
wickians at Eatanswill.”— ‘‘Don’t go away, Mary!’—Tom 
Smart.—Mr. Pickwick goes ‘‘ over!’—The Parish Clerk. —‘“‘ It’s 
the old un.” (Mr. Weller).—Comfortable Quarters.—‘‘ Governor 
in ?” (Sam Weller).—‘‘ The old Gen’lm’n as wore the pigtail.” — 
‘Get along with you, you old wretch!’—‘‘ Did you skin the 
gentleman, sir?’—Prince Bladub informs his father that he 
is engaged.—The scientific gentleman’s great discovery.— 
‘‘Take your hat off!’—Mr. Pickwick in the Sponging House.— 
The procession to the Fleet.—A pleasant party. (The hackney 
cabriolet in Goswell street).—Unexpected arrival of Mr. Pick- 
wick.—The Bagman’s uncle.—The Fat Boy is mysterious—A 
design for title-page to the set of illustrations. 

The set contains the famous Buss plates: ‘‘The Cricket 
Match” and ‘‘The Arbour Scene” in Part III., and the Ap- 
DRESSES in Parts X. and XV. 

Enclosed in two full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
cases, with inner protecting covers of silk (by RIVIERE). 


AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY FROM DICKENS TO HIS 
FRIEND GEORGE THOMPSON, 

210. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Posthumous Papers 
of the Pickwick Club. THE RARE First EDITION. With forty- 
three illusts., by R. Seymour and ‘‘Phiz.’’ 8vo, full green 
morocco, gilt, gilt edges. Lond. 1837 

* AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, TO HIS OLD- 


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TIME FRIEND GEORGE THOMPSON, WITH INSCRIPTION IN THE 
AUTHOR’S HANDWRITING:—‘‘ George Thompson Esqre. From 
his very faithfully Charles Dickens.’’ 

AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPIES OF DICKENS MOST IMPORTANT 
WORK, AND WITH THE WEALTH OF ASSOCIATION INTEREST THAT 
THIS COPY POSSESSES ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. 

THE INSCRIPTION IS CONTEMPORARY WITH THE BOOK. 


In 1840 Dickens wrote to Thompson, as follows, showing the 
friendship that existed between the two men: 

‘“My dear Thompson 

I have recewed a most flattering message from 

the head turnkey of the jail this morning, intimating that 

*‘there warn’t a genelman in all London he’d be.gladder to 

show his babies to, than Muster Dickins, and let him come 

wenever he would to that shop he wos welcome’’... But as 

the Governor (who is a very nice fellow and a gentleman) is 

not at home this morning, ...I think we had best postpone 
our visit for a day or two.’’ 


211. [DICKENS (CHARLES).] The Pickwick Songster. 
Edited by Sam Weller and the Honorable Members of ‘‘The 
Pickwick Club.’’ Portrait [‘‘S. Prest’’| and humorous illus- 
trations. 8vo, full polished calf, gilt top, oTHER EDGES UNCUT, 
by Morre.u. Lond. [ca. 1837-8] 

* EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Contains a large number of songs 
(many of them original compositions specially written for this 
publication, by Dibdin, ‘‘ Barry Cornwall,’’ Samuel Lover (sung 
by Madame Vestris), ete. The only other copy we have seen 
had 16 issues, this one has 11, and has TWO OF THE ORIGINAL 
WRAPPERS BOUND IN. 


FINE COPY OF A RARE DICKENS’ JEST BOOK. 


912. [DICKENS (CHARLES).] Sam Weller’s Pickwick 
Jest-Book, in which are concentrated all the Funny Sayings 
of Sam and his Companions and upwards of 1,000 Jokes, Epi- 
grams, Jeux d’Esprit, etc., including Joe Miller’s renowned 
Jests. THE ORIGINAL ISSUE. Illustrated with 24 PORTRAITS OF 
PICKWICKIAN CHARACTERS, including ‘‘Sam Weller,’’ ‘‘ Mr. 
* Pickwick,’’ ‘‘Mrs. Rachel Wardel,’’ ‘‘Mrs. Potts,’’ ‘‘Jingle,’’ 
‘‘Mr. Perker,’’ ‘‘Stuggins’’ and others. 12mo, tree calf, extra, 
gilt top, UNCUT, with original cloth covers bound in, by 
RiIvIERE. Lond.: Orlando Hodgson [1837] 

* A FINE COPY OF THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE VOLUME, published 
immediately after (or probably just before) the completion of 
Dickens’ ‘‘ Pickwick Papers.’’ The plates are all signed 
““W.C. W.’’ In 1837 Berger and Co. issued a series of penny 
numbers of ‘‘ Pickwick’’ characters, which in reality were some 
of the ones that had appeared in the above volume. 

The publisher evidently had great faith in his publication 
superseding the famous Joe Miller’s Jest Book, as in his ad- 
dress to ‘‘The Merry Reader’’ he commences 

““Joe Miller avaunt.—Thy sun is set.’’ 

The volume comes from the William Crampton sale, and con- 
tains his bookplate. 

A former owner’s opinion of the volume is written on the 
title: ‘‘Clever, and funny and interesting, rather scarce . . 
1849.’’ 

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A COMPLETE SET OF THE VERY RARE GILBERT 
ILLUSTRATIONS TO ‘‘PICKWICK.’’ 


213. DICKENS (CHARLES). A COMPLETE sET of the 
Excellent Series of Plates, from original designs by (Sir) 
John Gilbert, engraved (on wood) by Messrs. Greenaway and 
Wright. Comprises ‘‘ The Pickwickians,’’ ‘The Convict’s Re- 
turn,’’ ‘‘Mr. Pickwick and the old lady prove that their danc- 
ong days are not over,’”’ “‘The Fat Boy,’’ ‘‘Rev. Mr. Stiggins,’’ 
““Sam’s Christian vengeance on Job Trotter,’’ “Old Weller,’’ 
‘““Mr. Weller consults his friend learned in the law,’’ ete. 
Small 8vo, newly bound by Roor anp Son in three-quarter 
green crushed levant morocco, with inlays of red levant on 


panels on back, gilt top. [Lond.: E. Appleyard, 1847] 
*... Mr. Kitton in his scholarly book on ‘‘ Dickens and his 
Illustrators,’’ says that... ‘*These excellent plates ARE EX- 


REMELY RARE.?’ 

A VERY FINE COPY AND BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST COMPLETE 
SET THAT HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE IN THIS COUNTRY FOR 
MANY YEARS. 


214. DICKENS (CHARLES). 12 Illustrations to ‘‘The 
Pickwick Club,’’ by T. Onwhyn, drawn and etched in 1847, 
NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. Royal 8vo, wrappers. Lond. 1894 


* An exquisite series of TWELVE COLORED PLATES, ON LARGE 
PAPER. Only a few copies were prepared and quickly exhausted. 

As extra plates to ‘‘ Pickwick’’ they are admirably suited for 
insertion. 


UNIQUE COLLECTION OF PLAYBILLS RELATING TO 
PERFORMANCES OF THE WORKS OF DICKENS. 


215. DICKENS (CHARLES). Puaypiiis issued from 
the Princess’ Theatre, Leeds, England, Tuesday, May 10th, 
1859, WHERE A PERFORMANCE OF ‘‘OLIVER TWIST’’ WAS GIVEN. 

Leeds, 1859 

PLAYBILL issued from Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre (Lon- 
don), August 23rd, 1852, where Mr. Alfred Cooke, the 
premier horseman of the day, will appear in 5 characters © 
on horseback ... from the popular Novel of ‘‘ Pickwick.”’ 
[Lond. 1859] 

PLAYBILL issued from the Theatre Royal, Mary-le-bone 
(which WAS WITHIN A STONE’S THROW OF DICKENS’ HOME), 
January 14th, 1850, where a PERFORMANCE OF ‘‘ NICHOLAS 
NICKLEBY (with F. Cooke, and other actors of note) 
was given. Lond. 1850 
PLAYBILL issued from the Princess’s Theatre, Oxford Street, 
London, Dec. 3d, 1866, WHERE A PERFORMANCE OF ‘‘Bar- 
NABY’ RUDGE’’ was given, adapted for the Stage by Watts 
Phillips. Lond. 1866 
PLAYBILL issued from the Theatre Royal, Mary-le-bone, 
June 23rd, 1849, WHERE A PERFORMANCE OF ‘‘DOMBEY AND 
Son’’ was given, with G. Cooke, James Johnstone and 
other well-known actors in principal roles. Lond. 1849 


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PLAYBILL issued from the Olympic Theatre, Strand, Lon- 
don, April 15, WHERE A PERFORMANCE oF ‘‘Nell; or, The 
OLp CuRiIosITY SHOP,’’ was given. Lond. 1849 

PLAYBILL issued from the Olympic Theatre, Strand, Lon- 
don, Oct. 9th [ca. 1852], WHERE A PERFORMANCE OF ‘‘Lit- 
tle Em’ly,’’ a dramatic version of ‘‘Davip CoPPERFIELD,”’ 
was given. Lond. [ca. 1852] 

’ PLAYBILL issued from Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre of Arts, 
London, Dec. 15th, 1845, where Mr. ALFRED CooxKE will 
personate his justly admired Scene, taken from Boz’s 
CELEBRATED WORK, entitled ‘‘THE PICKWICKIANS.”’ 

Lond. 1845 

PLAYBILL issued from the Theatre Royal, Adelphi [ca. 
1847], where a PERFORMANCE OF ‘‘THE CRICKET ON THE 
HARTH’’ was given, with O. Smith, Mr. Lambert and 
other actors of note in principal characters. 

Dee. 27, 1845. Lond. [ca. 1847] 

PLAYBILL issued from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 
where A NEW POLKA, ENTITLED “‘THE CRICKET ON THE 
HeartH,’’ founded on the new work by Charles Dickens, 
Was given. THE FIRST EDITION OF THE WORK WAS NOT 
ISSUED, HOWEVER, UNTIL 1846. 


Together 10 Playbills, folio, ALL DOUBLE SHEETS, with the 
exception of the first mentioned. In new mats. 
Lond. 1845-1866 


* A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF DICKENS’ PLAYBILLS, SINGLE 
EXAMPLES OF WHICH ARE OFFERED FOR SALE AT LONG INTERVALS. 


A UNIQUE SET OF THE FIRST EDITIONS OF ‘‘SKETCHES. BY 
BOZ,’’ SERIES ONE HAVING A DUPLICATE SET OF THE 
ETCHINGS ON INDIA PAPER, AND SERIES TWO BEING IN 
GREEN CLOTH, WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY 
COPY KNOWN. 


216. DICKENS (CHARLES). 


‘*Sketches by ‘‘Boz,’’ ‘*Sketches by ‘‘Boz,’’ 
Illustrative of Illustrative of 
Every-Day Life and Every- | Every-Day Life and Every- 
Day People, Day People. 

in Two volumes Vol. 1 
(Vol. 2). 
The Second ‘‘Series,”’ 
Illustrations by George complete in one volume. 
Cruikshank. 
LONDON: LONDON : 


John Macrone, St. James’s| John Macrone, St. James’s 
Square, MDCCCXXXVI. Square, MDCCCOXXXVII. 


Both series complete, THE EXTREMELY RARE First EDITION OF 
EACH VOLUME, illustrated with 26 fine etchings by George 


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Cruikshank, fine wmpressions. 3 vols. post 8vo, ORIGINAL 
CLOTH, UNCUT. Lond. 1836-37 


* A UNIQUE SET, SERIES ONE HAVING A SET OF THE PLATES IN 


PROOF STATE ON INDIA PAPER INSERTED OPPOSITE THEIR RESPEC- . 


TIVE DUPLICATES. 
SERIES TWO IS IN GREEN CLOTH, IN WHICH STATE IT IS BE- 
BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY COPY KNOWN, ALL OTHER COPIES BEING 
IN EITHER PINK OR BROWN CLOTH. 
BoTH SERIES ARE IN FINE CONDITION, ESPECIALLY THE SECOND. 
The three volumes enclosed in handsome full maroon crushed 
levant morocco solander cases [by RIvIERE]. 


217. DICKENS (CHARLES). Sketches of Young Ladies. 
By ‘‘ Quiz.”’? FIRST EDN. Wath 6 allusts. by *‘ Phiz.”? 12mo, 
original pictorial boards, enclosed in full maroon crushed 
levant morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover 
of silk. 1837 


* RARE IN BOARDS. Although not by Dickens, this scarce 
little book was long thought by many to be of his authorship, 
since the author’s style [Caswell] so closely resembles that of the 
author of ‘‘Sketches by Boz.” It was, however, the immediate 
cause of the writing and publication of ‘‘Sketches of Young 
Gentlemen ” in which the attack upon the Young Ladies was 
balanced. 


DICKENS’ “THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN,” THE EXCESSIVELY 
RARE FIRST EDITION, AND THE ONLY COPY IN THE ORIG- 
INAL WRAPPERS THAT HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR PUBLIC 
AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. 


218. DICKENS (CHARLES). The | STRANGE GENTLE- 
MAN: | A Comic Burletta, in Two Acts. | By ‘‘ Boz.”’ | First 
performed | at | The St. James’s Theatre, | on | Thursday, 
September 29, 1836. | Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. | 
(line) MDCCCXXXVII. 12mo, original wrappers, UNCUT 
AND UNOPENED, and containing THE VERY RARE LEAF OF 
‘““ COSTUME ’’ following title. Lond. 1837 


* THE EXCESSIVELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION, OF WHICH BUT 
FEW COPIES ARE KNOWN. ‘THIS IS THE FIRST COPY IN THE 
ORIGINAL WRAPPERS (AND A VERY FINE COPY) THAT HAS BEEN 
OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. Two other copies, 
however, have been sold, those from the Johnson (1890) and the 
Daly (1900) collections. 

The St. James’s Theatre in London was opened about 1836 
and Dickens wrote three plays specially for performance there, 
viz., ‘‘The Village Coquettes,” ‘‘Is She His Wife?’ and ‘‘ The 
Strange Gentleman.” The latter is adapted from ‘‘ The Great 
Winglebury Duel,” one of the Sketches in his previously pub- 
lished ‘‘Sketches by Boz.” It saw its initial performance on 
Sept. 29, 1836 (the first night of the season), with J. P. Harley 
in the title-role. 

The play was quite a success and ran for sixty nights. On 
one occasion, it is said that the author essayed one of the roles, 
but with no great amount of success. That Dickens would 
have been a great success as an actor (a profession he always 
had a fondness for, and which he at one time thought of adopt- 


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ing) is evidenced by his performance at Montreal a few years 
later (1842), where his performance as Captain Bobadil in Jon- 
son’s ‘‘ Hvery Man in his Humour” rivalled the best actors of 
the day. 

Mr. Thompson, in his bibliography of Dickens, states that... 
‘*Printed copies of the play...perhaps advance proofs(?)... 
were in circulation at the theatre in 1836, but no copies of this 
issue remain. The first published issue is in pink printed paper 
wrappers, some with, many without, ‘ Phiz’s’ frontispiece 
etching. (The above has no etching.) A very good facsimile 
was issued by Chapman and Hall in 1871” (see the following). 


Also, 

THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN, etc. The Chapman and Hall 
facsimile reprint, referred to above. UNIQUE COPY, CON- 
TAINING NOT ONLY THE ETCHING BY F. W. PAILTHORPE 
THAT WAS ISSUED WITH THE BOOK, BUT AN EXAMPLE OF 
THE SAME IN COLORS, AND THE VERY SPECIAL FEATURE OF 
THE ORIGINAL DRAWING IN COLORS OF THE SAME, INITIALIED 
BY THE ARTIST. 2 vols. 12mo, wrappers. Lond. 1837-1871 


* Preserved in two maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
cases, with inner protecting covers of red silk [by RIVIERE]. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


219. DICKENS (CHARLES). Memoirs of Joseph Grim- 
aldi. Edited by ‘‘Boz.’’ First gpn. JIllust. by George 
Crukshank. 2 vols. post 8vo, original pink figured cloth, 
uncut, and with the advertisements. Lond. 1838 

* UNUSUALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST 
EDITION, with the plate ‘‘The-Last Song’’ without the border, 


which represents the famous clown on the occasion of his fare- 
well benefit. 


Enclosed in two full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
cases [by RIVIERE]. 


THE ACCORDION THAT GRIMALDI PLAYED ON THE STAGE, 
A UNIQUE ITEM OF RARE INTEREST. 


220. DICKENS (CHARLES). Griaupi’s Accorpion. A 
finely made Accordion, manufactured by Keith, Prowse and 
Co. of Cheapside, London, AND ONCE THE PROPERTY OF JOSEPH 
GRIMALDI, THE FAMOUS CLOWN. ‘THE INSTRUMENT IS IN A CON- 
TEMPORARY MAHOGANY CASE, WITH A SMALL BRASS TABLET ON 
THE UPPER COVER, WHICH BEARS THE INITIALS OF ITS FORMER 
ILLUSTRIOUS OWNER :—‘‘J. G.”’ 

* Accompanying the instrument are several documents, one 
reading as follows:—‘‘... In reply to your inquiry, the accordion 
by Keith, Prowse and Co. which I sold you, was the property of 
the late celebrated clown, JOE GRIMALDI, who was a relative of 


my family. It was the identical one HE PLAYED WHEN ON THE 
STAGE. ’’ 

(In another hand) ‘‘W. J. Gibbons.’’ 

The souvenirs once the property of Grimaldi that were sold at 
Sotheby’s in London in 1906 came FROM THE SAME MAN. 

AN ASSOCIATION ITEM OF RARE INTEREST. 


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221. DICKENS (CHARLES). Oliver Twist; or, the Par- 
ish Boy’s Progress. By ‘‘Boz.’’ First epN. With illusts. 
by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. post 8vo, full maroon crushed 
levant morocco, gilt tops, UNcUT, by Riviere. Lond. 1838 


* FINE COPY OF THE EARLIEST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, 
before the title was changed to ‘‘Oliver Twist, by Charles 
Dickens.’’ Contains the suppressed ‘‘FIRESIDE’’ plate. 

With original cloth covers and advertisements bound in. 


222. DICKENS (CHARLES). Oliver Twist; or, The Par- 
ish Boy’s Progress. The third edition, with an Introduction 
by the author. Wirth the complete. series of highly charac- 
teristic wllusts. by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. post 8vo, origi- 
nal cloth, uncut. Lond. 1841 


* AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY OF THE EDITION, WHICH IS PRACTI- 
CALLY AS RARE AS THE FIRST EDITION. Here is first presented 
the well-known introduction by Dickens, in which he states at 
length his reasons for writing the already famous work, and de- 
scribes the characters in the book. 


228. DICKENS (CHARLES). Sketches of Young Gentle- 
men. With illusts. by ‘‘Phiz.’’ First EpN. 12mo, original 
pictorial boards. Lond. 1838 


* RARE IN BOARDS. Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant 
morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover of silk, by 
RIvVIERE. From the Dedication to the Young Ladies of Great 
Britain, Ireland, Wales, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark: 
‘“. . . your Dedicator has perused, with feelings of virtuous in- 
dignation, a work purporting to be ‘Sketches of Young Ladies; ’ 
written by Quiz, illustrated by Phiz, and published in one vol- 
ume, square twelve mo ... actuated by these considerations 

your Dedicator ventures to produce another work ... en- 
titled ‘Sketches of Young Gentlemen,’ of which he now solicits 
your acceptance and approval... your Dedicator humbly sug- 
gests, that such of your Honourable sex as purchased the bane 
should possess themselves of the antidote and that those of your 
Honourable sex who were not rash enough to take the first, 
should lose no time in swallowing the last,—prevention being in 
all cases better than cure... .’’ 


AN EARLY VISITOR’S BOOK, CONTAINING AUTOGRAPH OF 
DICKENS. 


224. [DICKENS (CHARLES).] A small 4to. ‘‘Visitor’s 
Book,’’ kept at Shotley Bridge Spa (a popular town in Dur- 
ham, some miles from Neweastle on Tyne), containing THE 
AUTOGRAPH OF ‘‘CHARLES DickENS (Boz), LONDON,’’ on the 
eighteenth of May, 1839.. Small 4to, original leather binding. 

1839 


* Dickens travelled about a great deal in 1839, making a 
pleasure trip to Wales, ete. This year is also interesting, apart 
from the early date for a Dickens autograph, as it was in 1839 
that Dickens first contemplated coming to America (vide 
Forster). 


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: THE 


STRANGE GENTLEMAN; 


A Comic Wurletta, 


INST WO ACTS. 


BY “‘ BOZ."! 


FIRST PERFORMED 


THE ST. JAMES’S THEATRE, 


ON 


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1836. 


CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186, STRAND. 


N MDCCCXXXVII. 
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[DIcKENS. THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN. First EDITION. 


WRAPPERS. SEE No. 218.] 


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ORIGINAL 


By 


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4 
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i 


‘“NICHOLAS NICKLEBY’’ IN ORIGINAL PARTS, HAVING TWO 
OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY ‘‘PHIZ’’ INSERTED. 


225. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Life and Adventures 
of Nicholas Nickleby. Edited by ‘‘Boz.’’ First epN. IN THE 
ORIGINAL PARTS (20 in 19). Tllusts. by ‘‘Phiz.’? 8vo, with 
all the wrappers and advertisements. Lond. 1839 

“RARE IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, ESPECIALLY IN SUCH FINE 
STATE AS ABOVE. 
A UNIQUE COPY, BEING ENRICHED BY THE INSERTION OF TWO OF 


THE ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS (in two colors) By H. K. 
BROWNE (‘‘Phiz’’), 


(1) ‘Mr. and Mrs. Mantalini in Ralph Nickleby’s Office’’ in 
part XI, which DIFFERS MATERIALLY FROM THE FINISHED PLATE, 


the original having 7 figures and the finished plate only 4, with 
numerous other differences. 


(2) ‘‘Mysterous appearance of the Gentleman in the small 
Clothes,’’ in part XVI. BoTH OF THE DRAWINGS ARE SIGNED. 


The whole enclosed in two full maroon crushed levant mo- 
rocco solander cases, with inner protecting covers of red silk 
[by RiIvIERE]. 


AN ITEM OF DICKENSIANA OF THE UTMOST RARITY, 
BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY COPY KNOWN IN THE 
STATE DESCRIBED. 


226. [DICKENS (CHARLES).] DickENsiaAna. SCENES 
FROM THE Lire oF NICKLEBY MARRIED, containing certain 
remarkable passages, Strange Adventures, and Extraordinary 
Occurrences that befell The Nickleby Family in their further 
career; being, a SEQUEL TO THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF 
NicHouas NickuEsy. Edited by ‘‘Guess.’’ With allusts. by 
““Quiz.’’? FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo. Lond. 1840 


* OF EXCESSIVE RARITY, IT BEING SAID BY THE LATE OWNER 
(a collector of long standing, who is exceedingly well posted in 
literature of this kind) TO BE THE ONLY COPY KNOWN IN THIS 
REMARKABLE CONDITION, THE COPY BEING IN THE ORIGINAL GREEN 
PICTORIAL WRAPPERS, UNCUT (22 in 18) AND AS FRESH AS THE 
DAY IT LEFT THE PRINTER’S HANDS. 

Exhaustive search has failed, to trace the sale of another 
copy in wrappers, or its author. It is unknown to Slater, author 
of ‘‘Early Editions ;” to Forster, who wrote the Biography of 
the Novelist; to Kitton, who compiled the admirable work on 
**Dickens and his Illustrators,’’ and other bibliographers. The 
copy contains all the advertisements, and the slip in Part 1 re- 
garding ‘‘ Nicholas Nickleby.’’ Preserved in roan case, with 
inner protecting cover of red silk. 


227. DICKENS (CHARLES). THE VERY RARE SERIES OF 
THIRTY-TWO PLATES (wood engravings BY GILBERT and others 
to illustrate ‘‘Nicholas Nickleby.’’ Small 8vo, three-quarter 
erimson crushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt top. [Lond. 1840] 


* A COMPLETE SET OF THIS SPIRITED SERIES OF EXTRA PLATES 
To DICKENS’ FAMOUS STORY. 


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FIRST ISSUE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. 


228. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Loving Ballad of 
Lord Bateman. Illust. by George Cruikshank. 12mo, origi- 
nal green cloth, with design on front cover and advertise- 
ments. Lond. 1839 


* THE VERY SCARCE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, with 
the pagination printed in the middle of the page. It is now 
generally granted that the Notes and Preface are by Dickens, 
and the Verses by Thackeray. 

Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
ease [by RIVIERE]. 


229. DICKENS (CHARLES). Sketches of Young Couples. 
First EDN. With six allusts. by ‘‘Pliz.’’ By the author of 
‘‘Sketches of Young Gentlemen.’’ 12mo, original pictorial 
boards. Lond. 1840 


* RARE IN BOARDS. Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant 
morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover of silk (by 
RIVIERE). 


UNUSUALLY FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. 


230. DICKENS (CHARLES). Master Humphrey’s Clock. 
First EDN. With illusts. by George Cattermole and Hablot 
Browne. Royal 8vo. Lond. 1840-1841 


*UNUSUALLY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL 20 MONTHLY PARTS, 
WITH WRAPPERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS, AND UNCUT. 

Enclosed in three full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
cases, with inner protecting covers of silk [by RIvVIERE]. 


231. DICKENS (CHARLES). Master Humphrey’s Clock. 
With all the original illusts. by Cattermole and ‘** Phiz.’’ 
3 vols., royal 8vo, original cloth, as issued. Lond. 1840-41 


* THE FIRST EDITION, with the illustrations and text, later 
suppressed by the Author. ‘‘The Old Curiosity Shop’’ and 
‘‘Barnaby Rudge’’ are here published for the first time. 
Covers faded, but AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY, as originally 
issued, 


232. [DICKENS (CHARULES).] The Pic-Nic Papers. 
By various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens. 14 etchings 
by George Cruikshank, ‘‘Phiz,’’ and others. 3 vols. post 8vo, 
full maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt tops, UNCUT, 


with original cloth covers and advertisements bound in, by 
RIVIERE. Lond. 1841 


*FIRST EDITION. Rare, especially in such fine condition. 
Dickens wrote the Preface and the Lamplighter’s Story and 
edited the rest of the work. The book was gotten up by 
Dickens and published by Colburn for the benefit of Mrs. 
Macrone, the widow of Dickens’ first publisher. 


233. DICKENS (CHARLES). American Notes for Gen- 
eral Circulation. 2 vols. post 8vo, full maroon crushed levant 
morocco, gilt, gilt tops, UNcUT, by RIvIERE. Lond. 1842 


* HARLIEST ISSUE OF THE First EpiTion. A chapter was 
transferred from the beginning of Vol. I to the second volume 
on the eve of publication, and the earliest copies were issued 


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without the change in the pagination of Vol. I, thereby neces- 
sitated. Later copies of the same edition have the necessary 
alteration. Fine, bright copy with advertisements. Rare in 
this choice state. 


COMPLETE SET OF THE ‘‘CHRISTMAS BOOKS’? HANDSOMELY 
BOUND BY RIVIERE. 

234. DICKENS (CHARLES). A compuiete ser of Dick- 

ens’ famous ‘‘ Christmas Books,’’ comprising :— 

A CuristmMAs Caron in Prose and Verse, being a Ghost 
Story of Christmas. First EDN. AND FIRST ISSUE, with the 
**Points’’ (“‘Stave I,’’ ete.) With 4 colored plates and 
4 woodcuts by John Leech. Lond. 1843 


* With original cloth covers and advertisements bound in. 


THE CHIMES; a Goblin Story. First EDN. and FIRST ISSUE, 
having the publisher’s name engraved. Illust. by Mac- 
lise and Leech. Lond. 1845 


* With original cloth covers and leaf of advertisement bound in. 


THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, a Fairy Tale of Home. First 
EDN., with the publisher’s name at foot of engraved title. 
Illust. by Leech, Doyle and others. Lond. 1846 

* With original cloth covers and leaf of advertisement bound in, 

Tar Battie or Lirs, a Love Story. First EpN., without 
publisher’s name at foot of engraved title. Illust. by 
Leech, Doyle and others. Lond. 1846 

* With original cloth covers and leaf of advertisement bound in. 

THE HAunTED MAN and the Ghost’s Bargain, a Fancy for 
Christmas-Time. First epNn. Illust. by Leech and others. 

Lond. 1848 
* With original cloth covers and leaf of advertisement bound in. 

Together 5 vols. 12mo, full maroon crushed levant mo- 

rocco, gilt, gilt tops, by Rivier—E. HANDSOME SET. 


235. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Life and Adventures 
of Martin Chuzzlewit, his Relatives, Friends and Enemies. 
First EDN. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS (20in 19). Jllust. With 
the wrappers and advertisements, uncut. Lond. 1844 


* UNUSUALLY FINE COPY, only a few of the backs having been 
very slightly mended. CoNTAINS LEAF OF ‘‘ ERRATA’? lacking 
in most copies. 

Enclosed in two full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
cases, with inner protecting covers of silk [by RIvIERE]. 


236. DICKENS (CHARLES). Evenings of a Working 
' Man. Being the Occupation of his Scanty Leisure: By John 
Overs. With a Preface Relative to the Author by Charles 
Dickens. First EpN. 12mo, full maroon crushed levant mo- 
rocco, gilt, gilt top, original cloth covers bound in, by RIvIERE. 

Lond. 1844 


* Dickens’ introduction occupies nine pages. The contents of 
the volume are: Leaves from the Register of the Lady Abbess 
of Godstow.—The Dodder-Weed.—Theology; or, the Point at 
Issue.—A Legend of Runna Mead and Magna Charta.—Norris 
and Anne Boleyn, and six others. 


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A BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS WITH 
HIS BOOKPLATES. 


237. [DICKENS (CHARLES).] The Tree Rose, practi- 
cal Instructions for its Formation and Culture. By A. H. B. 
Illust. 12mo, original cloth. Lond. 1845 

* FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS, WITH HIS BOOK- 
PLATE (armorial, with his name beneath), also the small plate 
bearing the inscription ‘‘ From the Library of Charles Dickens, 
Gadshill Place, June, 1870.’’ 


238. DICKENS (CHARLES). Pictures from Italy. First 
EDN. The vignette allusts. by Samuel Palmer. 12mo, full 
maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt top, UNcUT, by 
RIVIERE. Lond. 1846 


* With the original cloth covers and advertisements bound in, 


‘‘DOMBEY AND SON’? IN ORIGINAL PARTS, HAVING TWO OF 
THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY ‘‘PHIZ’’ INSERTED. 


239. DICKENS (CHARLES). Dealings with the Firm of 
Dombey and Son. First EpN. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS (20 
in 19). With illusts. by H. K. Browne. 8vo, with the wrap- 
pers and advertisements, and the scarce leaf of ‘‘Errata.”’ 

Lond. 1848 
* FINE Copy, with the exception that a few of the backs have 
been skillfully repaired in places. 
UNIQUE COPY, BEING ENRICHED BY THE INSERTION OF TWO OF 
THE ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS BY H. K. BRowNeE (‘‘Phiz’’): 
(I) ‘‘A Chance Meeting’? in part XIII. 
(II) ‘‘ Abstraction and Recognition’? in part XV. 
The drawings WHICH ARE IN TWO COLORS, ARE BOTH SIGNED. 


Enclosed in two full maroon crushed levant morocco solander * 
cases, with inner protecting covers of red silk [by RIVIERE]. 


‘‘DAVID COPPERFIELD’’ IN ORIGINAL PARTS, HAVING TWO 
OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY ‘‘PHIZ’’ INSERTED. 


240. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Personal History of 
David Copperfield. First mpn. IJllust. by H. K. Browne. 
IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS (20 in 19), with all the wrappers and 
advertisements, and the scarce leaf of ‘‘Errata.’’ Lond. 1850 


* A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST OF DICK- 
ENS’ WORKS TO PROCURE IN REALLY DESIRABLE CONDITION, 

UNIQUE COPY, BEING ENRICHED BY THE INSERTION OF TWO OF ~ 
THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS By H. K. BRowNeE (‘‘ PHIz’’): 


(1) ‘‘I am hospitably received by Mr. Peggotty,’’ in 
part I. 


(2) ‘‘Somebody turns up’’ in part VI. 


The drawings (which are in two colors, and WHICH DIFFER MA- 
TERIALLY FROM THE ETCHED PLATES) are BOTH SIGNED BY THE 
ARTIST, 

Enclosed in two maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
cases, with inner protecting covers of red silk [by RIVIERE], 


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COMPLETE SET OF THE CHRISTMAS NUMBERS, ‘‘SOMEBODY’S 
LUGGAGE’’ HAVING PART OF THE ORIGINAL 
MANUSCRIPT. 


241. DICKENS (CHARLES). A comptete set of the 
Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year 
Round, Christmas numbers, from 1850 to 1867, inclusive. 
Original pamphlets, as issued. Household Words, 9 issues; 
All the Year Round, 9 issues; all Christmas Numbers, con- 
taining among others, ‘*The Seven Poor Travellers,’’ “The 
Holly Tree Inn,’’ “The Wreck of the Golden Mary, i al 2 
House to Let,’’ “A Haunted House,’’ ‘‘A Message from the 
Sea,”’ “Tom Tiddler’ s Ground, Ks “Somebody” s Luggage,’’ 
“Mrs, Lirriper’s Lodgings,”’ “Mrs, Lirriper’s Legacy,’’ 
‘‘Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions,’’ ‘‘Mugby Junction,’’ and 
**No Thoroughfare. ’? The 18 numbers, 8vo, as issued, en- 
closed in full maroon crushed levant morocco solander ease, 
with inner protecting cover of silk. Lond. 1850-67 

*In ‘‘Somebody’s Luggage,’’ p. 30 (‘‘His Brown Paper 
Parcel’’), there is inserted a page of the original MS. entirely 
in the autograph of Dickens; upwards of 400 words, interlined 
and corrected, describing the condition of the ‘‘young man in 
the Art line.’’ The fact that Dickens bequeathed his MSS. 
to Forster, who deposited them in the South Kensington Mu- 


seum, has rendered the acquisition of whole or part MSS. of 
Dickens’ works very unusual. 


242. DICKENS (CHARLES). A Curious Dance round a 
Curious Tree. FIRst ISSUE OF THE First EDN. 12mo, origi- 
nal pink wrappers. [Lond. 1852] 

* FIRST ISSUE, with pink wrappers and the last paragraph (on 
p. 19) printed in heavy type. The work was printed for dis- 
tribution to the patrons of St. Luke’s Hospital. 

Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
ease, with inner protecting cover of red silk [by Riviere]. 


A DICKENS’ PLAYBILL OF THE GREATEST RARITY. 


248. DICKENS (CHARLES). Puaysitn, issued for the 
Performance in the Large Hall of the Lyceum, Sunderland, 
Saturday, evening, August 28th, 1852, by the AmMaTruR Com- 
PANY OF LITERATURE AND ART. .... (when they performed) 
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton’s ‘‘Not so bad as we seem’’ 
and *‘Mr. NIGHTINGALE’s Diary,’’ By CHARLES DICKENS and 
Mark Lemon. ... and The Farce ‘“Two O’clock in the Morn- 
ing.’’ Folio. Sunderland, 1852 

* A DICKENS’ PLAYBILL OF THE GREATEST RARITY, PROBABLY 
UNIQUE. DURING THE EVENING DICKENS PERFORMED IN NO LESS 
THAN EIGHT CHARACTERS, as ‘‘Lord Wilmot’’ in ‘‘Not so bad 
as we seem,’’ ... (the performers including WILKIE COLLINS, 
Mark LEMON and others of note), and IN NO LESS THAN SEVEN 
CHARACTERS IN HIS OWN FARCE ‘‘Mr. Nightingale’s Diary,’’ 


and including those of ‘‘Mr. Gabblewig,’’ ‘‘Charley Bit,’’ 
‘<Mr. Poulter,’’ ‘‘Captain Blower,’’ ‘‘A Respectable Female, Ay 


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and ‘‘A Deaf Sexton,’’ he also took the part of ‘‘Mr. Snob- 
bington’’ in the last named. 

THE THEATRE ON THIS OCCASION WAS LICENSED TO DICKENS, 
AND THE WHOLE WAS PRODUCED UNDER HIS DIRECTION. 

The original production of ‘‘Mr. Nightingale’s Diary’’ had 
taken place in May, 1851, at Devonshire House, London, the 
success of which exdeeded all expectations. The scenery was 
painted by eminent artists, among whom were David Roberts, 
Stanfield, and others. This scenery (which was admirably pro- 
duced) was carried, with the company, and was used on the 
above occasion. 

VERY SPECIAL INTEREST ATTACHES TO THE HALL OF THE Ly- 
CEUM AT SUNDERLAND, AS IT WAS HERE THAT THE LATE SIR 
HENRY IRVING MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE. 


WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED POEM IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF 
CHARLES DICKENS. 


244. DICKENS (CHARLES). DICKENS’ COPY, WITH 
ORIGINAL POEM. Woolnoth (Thomas). Facts and Faces... 


a Dissertation on Personal Beauty ... also an Essay on Com- 
plexion of Character. With numerous illusts. Royal 8vo, 
cloth, uncut. Lond. 1852 


* WITH ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED POEM OF FOUR LINES IN THE 
AUTOGRAPH OF CHARLES DICKENS, SIGNED BY HIM IN FULL, AND 
DATED FROM GAD’S HILL. 

‘*Gad’s Hill 
December 9th, 1860 
““Man’s face—the index to his soul 
Shows what may be found within 
The broad brow has a heavenly goal 
The narrow a haven of sin. 
Charles Dickens.’’ 

The poem is on the first fly-leaf, which has ben creased and 
repaired. In all probability it was extracted from the volume 
by the late owner, and carried in his pocket-book for exhibition, 
and. later put back in its original place. 

The volume also contains the bookplate of Charles Dickens. 

Preserved in handsome full crimson crushed levant morocco 
solander case, with inner protecting cover of red silk. 


245. DICKENS (CHARLES). A Child’s History of 
England. Firsr EpN. With illusts. by F. W. Topham. 3 
vols. 12mo, full maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt tops, 
with original cloth covers and advertisements bound in. 

*FINE SET, BOUND BY RIVIERE. Lond. 1852-1854 


246. DICKENS (CHARLES). Bleak House. First Epn. 
With illusts. by H. K. Browne. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS (20 
in 19), with all the wrappers and advertisements, (several 
backs skillfully repaired). Lond. 1853 


*Enelosed in two full maroon crushed Jevant morocco solander | 
cases, with inner protecting covers of red silk (by RIVIERE). 


‘(LITTLE DORRIT,’’ IN ORIGINAL PARTS, HAVING TWO OF 
THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY ‘‘PHIZ’’ INSERTED. 


247. DICKENS (CHARLES). Little Dorrit. First EDN. 
With illustrations. by H. K. Browne. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, 
84 


with all the wrappers and advertisements, the backs unusually 
good (a few being skillfully repaired) uncut. Lond. 1857 


*ENRICHED BY THE INSERTION OF TWO OF THE ORIGINAL DRAW- 
Ines. By H. K. BRowns ((‘‘ Phiz’’), ONE BEING FINELY COLORED, 
and the other in two colors: 


(1) ‘‘Little Mother,’’ in part III. THIS pRAawING Is 
FINELY COLORED. 


(2) ‘‘Mr. Flintwood has a mild attack of irritability,’’ in 
part IX. 


BoTH OF THE DRAWINGS ARE SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 

Enclosed in two full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
cases, with inner protecting silk covers [by RIvIERE]. 

It is generally conceded that some of Browne’s most powerful 
work appeared in ‘‘ Little Dorrit.’’ 

Part XVI contains the slip correcting the author’s oversight 
in Part XV relative to the use of the name ‘‘ Rigaud’’ instead 
of ‘‘Blandois.’’ 


248. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Poor Traveller; Boots 
at the Holly-Tree Inn and Mrs. Gamp. First EpN. 12mo, 
full maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt top, with origi- 
nal green wrappers bound in, by Riviere. Lond. 1858 

*This work was used by Dickens for his public readings. 


249. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Story of Little Dom- 
bey. FIRSTEDN. 12mo, full maroon crushed levant mo- 
rocco, gilt, gilt top, with original covers bound in, by 


RIVIERE. Lond. 1858 


* A short, revised version of Dombey and Son, which the 
novelist used in public readings. 


250. DICKENS (CHARLES). Hunted Down. A Story. 
With some account of Thomas Griffiths Wainwright, the 
Poisoner. FIRST EDN. in book form. Woodcutof the ‘Fatal 
House” on title, which is repeated on the cover. 12mo, full 
maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt top, with original 
green wrappers and advertisements bound in, by RIVIERE. 

Lond., n.d. [1859] 


* A very interesting story, founded upon the true tale of 
Wainwright’s life. It was originally published in the ‘‘ New 
York Ledger,’ which paid Dickens a thousand guineas for it. 


A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF “A TALE OF TWO CITIES,” 
IN ORIGINAL PARTS, FOUR OF THE PARTS 
BEING UNOPENED. 


251. DICKENS (CHARLES). A Tale of Two Cities. 
FIRST EDN. Wah itlusts. by ‘‘Phiz.” IN THE ORIGINAL 
PARTS (8 in 7). With all the wrappers and advertisements, 
uncut. Lond. 1859 

* PROBABLY THE FINEST COPY EXTANT OF THIS, ONE OF THE 
RAREST OF DICKENS’ WORKS TO PROCURE IN DESIRABLE COLLEC- 
TORS CONDITION. Practically as fresh as the day they left the 
publisher, and with the UNUSUAL FEATURE OF HAVING FOUR OF 
THE PARTS UNOPENED. 

Enclosed in full maroon crushed levant morocco solander 
case, with inner protecting cover of silk [by RIVIERE]. 


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PROBABLY THE FINEST COPY EXTANT OF THE FIRST 
ISSUE OF ‘‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS. ’’ 


252. DICKENS (CHARLES). Great Expectations. First 
ISSUE OF THE First EDN. 3 vols. post 8vo, full maroon crushed 
levant morocco, gilt, gilt tops, UNCUT, with the original cloth 
covers, and advertisements (which are dated May, 1861, thus 


PROVING IT OF THE FIRST ISSUE) bound in, by Riviere. 

Lond. 1861 
* PROBABLY THE FINEST COPY IN EXISTENCE, CONTAINING 
TWENTY-SIX ORIGINAL DRAWINGS SPECIALLY DONE BY THE EMINENT 
DICKENS’ ILLUSTRATOR, IF’. W. PAILTHORPE, AND INCLUDING SOME 
THAT ARE UNPUBLISHED, ALSO A SET OF THE ETCHINGS COLORED 
BY Mr. PAILTHORPE, AND THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM THE 

ARTIST: 

. “TI have placed the illustrations—(which are proofs on 
crayon paper before the plates got into the publisher’s hands 
and were printed ‘with effects’—that is to say smudged)—to- 
gether with THE ORIGINAL FIRST IDEAS AND SKETCHES—in the 
pages I intended to illustrate—including three WHICH WERE 
NOT USED by 

**Vours very truly 
‘“‘F W. Pailthorpe.’’ 


253. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Uncommercial Trav- 
eller. FIRST EDN. Post 8vo, full maroon crushed levant 
morocco, gilt, gilt top, uneut, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1861 


* With the original cloth covers, and publisher’s catalogue 
(dated December, 1860), bound in, 


254. DICKENS (CHARLES). Our Mutual Friend. FIRST 
EDN. TIilusts. by Marcus Stone. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS 
(20 in 19), with the wrappers and advertisements, a few 
backs skillfully repaired, uncut. Lond. 1865 


* Enclosed in two full maroon crushed levant morocco solan- 
der cases, with inner protecting covers of red silk (by RIVIERE). 


255. DICKENS (CHARLKS). The Frozen Deep. A Drama 
in Three Acts. By Wilkie Collins. Original pampblet. 
12mo, enclosed in full maroon crushed levant morocco so- 
lander case, with inner protecting cover of red silk. (With 
MS. stage directions, ete.) [Lond.]: Not published, 1866 


* This item is unknown to Mr. Thompson, who refers to Mr. 
Kitton’s citation of it,and mentions it as ‘‘ believed to be abso- 
lutely unique.” Mr. Kitton has a page on the play in his ‘‘The 
Minor Writings of Dickens,” in course of which he says: 

‘*On the title-page and buff-colored wrapper of this impres- 
sion (believed to be a prompt-copy and very rare) is the follow- 
ing: ...” (Title follows.) ‘‘ Placed with the pamphlet are 
autograph plans of the stage for the different Acts, list of cos- 
tumes, etc. Dickens himself assumed the principal parts in. 
both ‘The Frozen Deep’ and ‘The Lighthouse,’ absolutely elec- 
trifying his audiences by the histronic capacity he displayed.” 

This personal memento of Dickens and his acting days, com- 
plete as described, with the autograph plans of the stage, list 
of properties, description of costumes, etc., is the item in 
hand. Since the play as acted was as much Dickens’ work as 
Collins’, the prompt-book in itself, aside from Dickens’ associ- 
ation with the play as the leading actor in it, constitutes a. 
very important, even a unique, item ina Dickens collection, 


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256. DICKENS (CHARLES). Address delivered at the 
Birmingham and Midland Institute, on the 27th Septem- 
ber, 1869. By Charles Dickens, Esquire, President. 8vo, 
original printed wrappers. - Birmingham [1869] 

* PRIVATELY PRINTED AND VERY SCARCE. 


257. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Mystery of Edwin 
Drood. First EDN. Tillust. by Fildes, and with a portrait 
of the author. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS (6), with wrappers 
and advertisements, uncut. Lond. 1870 


* Fine copy, enclosed in full maroon crushed levant morocco 
solander case, with inner protecting cover of red silk [by 
Riviere]. 


258. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Lamplighter, a Farce 
[1838]. Now first printed from a manuscript in the Fors- 
ter Collection at the South Kensington Museum. 12mo, 
full maroon crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt top, with 
original covers bound in, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1879 


* Only 250 copies were privately printed, and the work is 
now scarce, 


THE ORIGINAL PROOF SHEETS, CONTAINING A LARGE 
NUMBER OF CORRECTIONS. 


259. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Lamplighter, 1879. 
Revised proofsheets for the above item, containing many 
corrections. Unsewed pamphlet of 46 pp. in green paper 
wrappers. 12mo, enclosed in full maroon crushed levant 
morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover of red 
silk [by RIVIERE]. 

* A DICKENS ITEM OF GREAT INTEREST, 


260. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Mudfog Papers, etc. 
Now FIRST COLLECTED. Front. by George Cruikshank. 
12mo, full maroon crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt top, 
by RIVIERE. Lond. 1880 


* With original cloth covers and advertisements bound in. 


261. DICKENS (CHARLES). Twenty Scenes from the 
Works of Dickens (with accompanying text), designed and 
etched by Christopher Coveny. 4to, half morocco, gilt 
top. Sydney, N.S. W., 1883 


* AN EXTREMELY RARE DICKENS ITEM, AND POSSESSED BY BUT 
FEW COLLECTORS. CONTAINS THE DUPLICATE PLATE, (7), WHICH 
IS USUALLY LACKING. 


THE GADSHILL EDITION OF DICKENS. EDITED BY 
ANDREW LANG. ; 

262. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Complete Works of 
Dickens. With Introductions, General Essays and Notes 
by Andrew Lang. Together with the Life of Dickens by 
John Forster. Portraits and all the original illusts. by 


87 


Phiz, Cruikshank, Seymour, etc. 36 vols. 8vo, beautifully 
bound in half dark green polished morocco, gilt tooled 
backs, gilt tops, uncut. Lond. and N. Y., n. d. 


* AN EXCEEDINGLY CHOICE SET of the Gadshill Edition, 
printed from the edition carefully corrected by the author in 
in 1867. This edition will always rank as one of the best ever 
issued, owing to its fine typography and general make up. 


PRINTED BY VINDELIN OF SPIRE. THE FIRST COPY TO BE 
OFFERED AT AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. 


263. DONATUS: COMMENTARIUSIN TERENTIUM. Fol. J, 
blank. Fol. 2r: [P|vBLIvs TERENTIVS Afer Carthagine | 


natus:.... Fol. 81 7., lin. 39:....temporis ad a- | gen- 
dum. Fol. 81 v., blank. Fol. 82 r.: [S]TORAX Non rediit 
hac nocte a coena Aeschinus: | Hee fabula.... Fol. 161 v., 


lin. 34: réXos. | Raphael zouenzonius tergestinus poeta | 
Vindelino spirensi suo sal’. | Qui cupit obstrusam frugem 
gustasse Terenti | Donatum querat noscere gramatici. | 
Quem Vindelinus signis impressit ahenis | Vir bonus: & 
claro preditus ingenio. Fol. 162 blank. WITH A FINE CON- 
TEMPORARY ORNAMENTAL INITIAL IN THE INTERLACED STYLE 
ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS at the beginning of the 
book, an Italian coat of arms painted in the lower margin of 
the first leaf, and numerous initials painted in blue and red. 
Several Greek passages printed throughout. Folio, full 
brown levant morocco, blind panelled sides, central diamond 
panel formed by blind lines, with the title of the book let- 
tered in gold on the centre of both covers in the style of 
the 15th century bindings, edges gilt on the rough. 

Venice: Vindelinus de Spira [1471] 


* FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT COMMENTARY ON THE 
COMEDIES OF TERENCE WRITTEN BY THE CELEBRATED SCHOLAR 
AND GRAMMARIAN, AELIUS DONATUS, AND AT THE SAME TIME 
A MOST DESIRABLE SPECIMEN FROM THE WELL-KNOWN AND JUSTLY 
APPRECIATED PRESS OF VINDELIN OF SPIRE, WHO, WITH HIS 
BROTHER JOHN, WERE THE FIRST TO INTRODUCE THE PRINTING 
ART IN VENICE. Printed in fine Roman character. 162 un- 
numbered leaves without signatures and ecatchwords. Hain, 
6383; Proctor, 4056; Panzer, IX. 285, 13B; Pellechet, 4429. 
A VERY FINE COPY, WITH EXCEEDINGLY LARGE MARGINS, measur- 
ing 134% x9 inches. 


HANDSOME SET OF THE WRITINGS OF BEACONSFIELD. 


264. DISRAELI (BENJAMIN, EARL OF BEACONS- 
FIELD). The Works of Disraeli, including the Novels, 
Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and 
Great Speeches. With a Critical Introduction by Edmund 
Gosse and a Biographical Preface by Robert Arnot. _Col- 
ored portrait and numerous colored plates and other illusts., 
from drawings by Herman Rountree, printed on Japan 
paper. 18 vols. 8vo, finely bound in different colored mo- 
roccos in exact imitation of some of the rarest old bind- 


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and inlaid in white, gilt tops, uncut. Lond. [1904] 
* Crown Edition, limited to 999 sets. 


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265. DVISRAELI (ISAAC). A Second Series of Curiosi- 
ties of Literature, consisting of Researches in Literary, 
Biographical and Political History, of Critical and Philoso- 
phical Inquiries and of SECRET HISTORY. 3 vols. 8vo, new 
full light brown levant, gold panelled backs, inside line 
borders, gilt tops, uncut, by WALTERS. Lond.: Murray, 1824 

* An exceedingly fine and interesting set, HAVING INSERTED 


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266. DONNE (JOHN). A Sermon upon the Eight 
Ver|sle of the First Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. 
Preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian 
Plantations, 13 Novemb., 1622. Small 4to, mottled calf. 

Lond.: Printed for Thomas Jones, 1624 

* Few in number at the best, we treasure every book or 
pamphlet which relates to those early settlements of Virginia. 
In this sermon John Donne gives advice about governing the 


Plantation, which he calls England’s ‘‘ little sister.” He says, 
too: 


‘*O, if you would bee as ready to hearken at the returne of 
a ship, how many Indians were converted to Christ Jesus, as 
what trees, or druggs, or Dyes that Ship had brought, then you 
were in your right way, and not till then.” 


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267. DOUGLAS (GAWIN;—Bishop of Dunkeld). The 
XIII. Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, trans- 
lated out of Latyne verses into Scottish Metir, by the Reuerend 
Father in God, Mayfter Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dun- 
kel and vnkil to the Erle of Angus. Euery buke hauing hys 
perticular Prologe. Title within a fine woodcut border. 

Imprinted at London, 1553 


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WITH AUTHOR, TITLE AND DATE WITHIN, BY RIVIERE. 

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SEASON FOR ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS HAD A SMALL 
HOLE IN ONE PAGE AND WAS NOT SO TALL OR FINE IN ANY WAY 
AS THE ABOVE COPY. 

Preserved in case. 


[See Reproduction. ] 
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268. DRAMA. Three small folio volumes in old half bind- 
ing and boards, containing almost TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY 
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS in pen-and-ink, sepia, pencil, etc., BEING 
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ARTIST EMPLOYED BY JOHN Puiuip KemBie, and in all proba- 
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to have painted. The letter, written from Liverpool, July 8th, 
1789, says in part:— 
aaa Johnston 

““T send you the first sheet of my historical procession for the 
pantomine. I have taken some pains-to make it clear in every 
particular .... The banners, Anglo-Saxon, Dane, Saxon Line re- 
stored, and Norman, should be very large, as that will be seen 
better, I think, than gold ;—these banners I call generical, they 
must all be different .... The banners on which are inscribed 
the names of the kings, as ‘Alfred the Great, Founder of the 
British Monarchy, 872-901,’ ‘Edward the Elder,’ etc., should be 
all of one shape, let tt be round... with rich borders .... Pro- 
file representations of the Ship wm Alfred’s reign, the New 
Forest in that of William Rufas, the Tower in William the Con- 
queror’s, with cities, castles, monasteries,’’ ete., ete. 


The letter, which has been reprinted in ‘‘ Reminiscences of 
Thomas Dibdin’’ 2 vols. Lond. 1827, A COPY OF WHICH ACCOM- 
PANIES THE DRAWINGS AND LETTER, was only partly printed. 
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what an intimate knowledge of heraldry the eminent actor pos- 
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269. DRAYTON (MICHAEL). Poly-Olbion; or, A Chron: 
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ests, and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, 
with Intermixture of the most Remarquable (sic) Stories, 
Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodi- 
ties of the same, whereunto the course of the volume added, 
for the direction of those occurrences of Story... ete. 

Lond.: Printed by H. L. for Matthew Lownes, ete. ... 1613 


The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion from 
the Eighteenth Song, containing all the Tracts, Rivers, 
Mountains and Forests. .. of the East and Northern Parts 
of this Isle, lying betwixt the two Famous Rivers of Thames 
and Tweed. lLond.: Printed by Aug. Mathews for John 
Marriott, ete... . 1622. 


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THE 


| xiii, Bukes of Eneados of 
the famose Poete Virgil 


Cranflatet out of Latpne 
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| | Sie, bi the Renerend Faz 
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{tet Gatwin Douglas 
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Perticular 
D2Gl0ge. 


[Dovetas. ENzapos or Vireitn. First Epirion. See No. 267.] 


avs : 


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The above copy, besides containing all the maps, engraved 

title, and explanation, the two printed titles, and portraits of 

Prince Henry, has also the ‘‘ Table,” which is often missing. 

For the Shakespearean interest of this book, see Ingleby’s 
Prayse, p. 428. 


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270. DRAYTON (MICHAEL). Poem by Michael Dray- 
ton, Esquire, collected into one volume, with sundry pieces 
Inserted, NEVER BEFORE IMPRINTED, viz., The Baron’s 
Warres, England’s Heroicall Epistles, Idea, Odes, the 
Legends of Robert, Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce 
Gaveston, Great Cromwell, and The Owle, Pastorals con- 
tayning Eeclogues. With the Man in the Moone. Lond.: 
Printed by W. Stansby for John Smethwicke, n. d. [1619]. 

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“The Manin the Moon.” Each portion has a distinct title- 
page, and embraces the author’s dedication of the separate 
poems, as well as the commendatory verses addressed to him 
for publication. 

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271. DRAYTON (MICHAEL). The Battaile of Agin- 
court, fought by Henry the Fift of that name, King of 
England, against the whole Power of the French, under the 
Raigne of their Charles the Sixt, Anno Dom. 1415; The 
Miseries of Queen Margarite, the unfortunate Wife of that 
most unfortunate King, Henry the Sixt; Nimphidia; The 
the Court of Fayrie; The Quest of Cinthia; The Shepheard’s 
Sirena; The Moone-Calfe; Elegies upon Sundrie Occasions. 
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morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 

Lond.: Printed for William Lee, 1627 

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GARITE,” and the ‘‘ ELEGIES.” Among these is one addressed 

- to George Sandys, Treasurer for the English Colony in ViR- 
GINIA (AMERICA), and another of the ‘‘ POETS AND POESIE,” in 


which Drayton delivers his judgment upon the merits of vari- 
ous contemporary poets, including Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Chap- 


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man, Daniel, Beaumont, Spenser, Sidney, Drummond, SHAKE- 
SPEARE, and others. The following is the reference to Shake- 
eare: 
: ‘‘And be it said of thee, 
Shakespere thou hadst a smooth a comicke vain, 
Fitting the socke, and in thy natural braine, 
As strong conception, and as cleare a rage, 
Asany one that traffiqu’'d with the stage.” 


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272. DRUMMOND (WILLIAM). Poems, by that most 
famous wit, William Drummond, of Hawthornden. THE 
VERY RARE FIRST EDN. With the rare etched portrait of the 
author by Gaywood. Small 8vo, full red crushed levant 
morocco, the sides richly gold tooled, gilt edges, BY RAM- 
AGE. Lond.: Printed for Richard Tomlins at the Sun, 1656 

* With the exception of few headlines being shaved, and 
one catch-word torn away, A FINE COPY. It was edited by 
Edward Phillips, the nephew of John Milton, 

It possesses Shakespeare interest. The idea of the sonnet on 


page 48 is said by Ingleby to be taken from the Lover’s Com- 
plaint of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. 


273. DRYDEN (JOHN). A Poem upon the Death of his 
Late Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scot- 
land and Ireland. Written by Mr. Dryden. THE EX- 
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him. Sir Walter Scott says of this incident, ‘‘It is singular 
that the poet who solemnized by elegy the death of the Pro- 
tector should have hailed the restoration of the Stuart line.” 
This elegy was never acknowledged by the author in the col- 
lection of his works, and he evidently wished it to be forgot- 
ten, but many years after its first appearance it was reprinted 
by one of his antagonists, with the hope of making Dryden 
appear as an apostate, under the title of ‘‘An Elegy on the 
Usurper, Oliver Cromwell, by tke author of ‘Absolom and 
Achitophel.’”’ 


274. DRYDEN (JOHN). The Conquest of Granada, by 
the Spaniards, in two parts, acted at the Theather-Royal; 
Almanzor and Almahide, or the Conquest of Granada, the 
Second Part, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. 2 parts 
in one volume, small 4to, original red morocco, gold tooling 
on back, panelled sides, gilt edges, by SAMUEL MEARNE. 
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273. DRYDEN (JOHN). The Hind and the Panther; 
a Poem. InThree Parts. THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF 
THE FIRST EDN. Small 4to, full sprinkled calf, extra, gilt 
edges, by RIVIERE. Lond.: Jacob Tonson, 1687 


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written after he had become a convert to the Roman Catholic 
religion, by way of defense of his new faith. The publication 
brought out Matt Prior’s excellent ‘‘ The Country Mouse and 
City Mouse,” a most witty ‘‘ Counterblast” to Dryden’s mis- 
taken effort. 


For a first edition of this ‘‘ Cownterblast’”’ see under Prior, 
No. 487 . 


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276. KABLY PRINTING. Orosius (Paulus). Histori- 
arum adversus Paganos libri VII. Gothic 

character. 130 unnumbered leaves, without signatures and 
catchwords; 35 lines to the page. Rubricated throughout 
and contemporary initials painted in red. Small folio, 
half calf. Augsburg: Johannes Schissler, 1471 


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277. EARLY PRINTING. Augustinus (8.). Soliloquia 
et Speculum pececatoris. Gothic character: 28 unnum- 
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toa page. Fol. 1 r.: Aurelij Augustini episcopi ippon- 
ensis | incipit soliloquit (szc) liber pmus feliciter. nds fol. 


23 r., line 26: ... | dacio pollicetur. A. Fiat vt speramus. 
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278. EARLY PRINTING. MARTIALIS. Epigrammata. 
Roman character. 169 unnumbered leaves without catch- 
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Venetiis: Philippus condam Petri, 1479 
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282. EARLY PRINTING. ALEXANDER APHRODISIENSIS. 
Enarratio de anima ex Aristotelis institutione, interprete 
Hieronymo Donato. Roman character. 92 unnumbered 
leaves, including first blank; signatures a-l. Waiuth a fine 
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and pointillé tooling, mosaic back tooled and gilt, gilt in- 
side borders, gilt edges, by E. SULLIVAN. Hain, 656; Pel- 
lechet, 441; Proctor, 7030. 

Brixie: Bernardinus de Misintis de Papia, 1495 


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283. EARLY VOYAGES TO THE EAST INDIES. Co- 
vert (Captaine Robert). A True and almost Incredible 
Report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good 
ship called the Assension in Cambaya, the farthest part of 
the East Indies), trauelled the Land thorow many unknowne 
Kingdomes and great Cities; as also A Relation of their 
Commodities and manner of Traffique, and at what seasons 
of the yeere they are most in use, Faythfully related; With 
a DISCOVERY OF A GREAT EMPEROR CALLED THE GREAT 
MOGOOL, a Prince not till now knowne to our English Na- 
tion. Small 4to, PRINTED THROUGHOUT IN BLACK LETTER, 
full polished calf extra, gilt edges, SOME LOWER MARGINS 
uncut. Lond.: Printed for I. N. and Hugh Perry, at the 
signe of the Harrow, 1631. 


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tains the leaf of Imprimatur at end. 

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284. EDGEWORTH (MARIA). The Parents’ Assistant; 
or, Stories for Children. Fronts. 6 vols. 12mo, old sprinkled 
ealf. Lond. 1800 

* PRESENTATION COPY TO MISS BRINKLEY, WITH A LONG IN- 
SCRIPTION ON THE TITLE OF VOL. I, AND SHORTER ONES IN THE 
FIVE FOLLOWING VOLUMES. Unfortunately, the little set has 
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time, and some young one has cut off part of the bottom of 
the first frontispiece and fly-leaf, 


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285. EGAN (PIERCE). Life in London; or, The Day 
and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant 
Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the 
Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropo- 
lis. FIRSTEDN. Wath brilliant impressions of the 36 full- 
page plates IN COLORS (the front. containing portraits of 
both author and artist), as well as nwmerous woodcuts, de- 
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286. EGAN (PIERCE). Life in London; or, The Day 
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Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the 
Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropo- 
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OTHER EDGES TOTALLY UNCUT, BY TOUT. Lond. 1822 

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287. EGAN (PIERCE). Real Life in London; or, The 
Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and his 
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exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, 
Manners and Amusements in High and Low Life. By An 
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very finely vigorous and representative colored plates by 
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288. EGAN (PIERCE). Pierce Egan’s Account of the 
Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, with an Appendix 
disclosing some extraordinary facts exclusively in the pos- 
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1824; also Recollections of John Thurtell... with a cor- 
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by LARKINS. SCARCE. Lond. 1824 


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289. EGAN (PIERCE). Sporting Anecdotes, Original 
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290. [EGAN (PIERCE).] Fights for the Championship, 
and Celebrated Prize Battles; or, Accounts of all the Prize 
Battles for the Championship from the Days of Figg and 
Broughton to the present time... compiled from Bell’s 
Life in London,” ‘‘ BOXIANA”’ (BY PIERCE EGAN), and 
original sources, by the Editor of ‘‘ Bell’s Life in London.?’’ 
FIRST EDN. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1855 


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291. ELIOT (GEORGE). Agatha (a Poem). First EDN, 
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100 


cellent a making as Troylus of Chaucer, yet should they not 
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298. EVELYN (JOHN). Diary, to which are added a 
Selection from his familiar Letters and the Private Corre- 
spondence between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas 
and between Sir Edward Hyde (afterwards Earl of Claren- 
don) and Sir Richard Browne. Edited from the original 
MSS. by William Bray. A new edition, with a Life of the 
Author and a new Preface, by H. B. Wheatley. Portraits 
and numerous tlusts. 4 vols. 8vo, newly bound in half 
polished calf extra, gilt backs, gilt tops. Lond. 1906 

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299. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY. Rochester and 
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300. AIRFAX (EDWARD). Godfrey of Bulloigne; 
or, The Recovery of Jerusalem. Done into 
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design by MARY HOUSTON. 
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301. FERRIER (SUSAN E.). First EDITIONS OF THE 
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Marriage: A Novel, in three volumes. 
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IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. ‘ 

302. FITZGERALD (EDWARD). Salaman and Absal. 
An Allegory. Transl. from the Persian of Jami. SF ronts. 
FIRST EDN. 8vo, original blue cloth, uncut. 

Lond.: Parker & Son, 1856 
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scarcity the First Edition of Omar Khayyam. 


303. FITZGERALD (EDWARD). Rubaiyat of Omar 
Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami. Rendered 
into English verse. Frontispiece. 12mo, original half roan, 
gilt top. Lond.: Quaritch, 1879 | 


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304. FLORIO (JOHN). Florio his First Fruites: whiche 
yeelde Familiar Speech, merie Proverbes, wittie Sentences, 
and golden Sayings. Alsoa perfect Induction to the Italian 
and English tongues, as in the Table appeareth. [1578]— 
Florio’s Second Frutes, to be gathered of Twelve Trees, of 
divers but delightsome tastes to the Tongues of Italians 
and Englishmen, to which is annexed his Gardine of Recrea- 
tion, yeelding six thousand Italian Proverbs, 1591. 2 vols. 
small 4to, full calf. 

Lond. : Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcock [1579 ]-1591 


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305. FLORIO (JOHN). The Essayes or moral, politike 
and millitarie discourses of Lord Michaell de Montaigne, 
first written by him in French, and now done into English | 


102 


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by him, which appears in the 16138 edition of the book. At p. 
102 is a passage which SHAKESPEARE is, with good reason, sup- 
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306. FORD (JOHN). Loves Sacrifice, a Tragedie received 
generally well, acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants at 
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307. FORNEY (JOHN W.). Anecdotes of Public Men. 

2 vols. 12mo, new full blue crushed levant, gold tooled 
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Nay [| 1851} 

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308. FORREST (THOMAS). A Perfite Looking Glass 
for all Estates, most excellently and eloquently set forth 
by the famous and learned oratour Isocrates, as contained 
in three orations of moral instructions, now Englished to 
the behalfe of the Reader, with sundry examples and 
pithy sentences both of princes and philosophers, gathered 
and collected out of divers writers coted in the margent 
approbating the authors intent no less delectable than 
profitable. BLACK LETTER. Small 4to, full brown levant 
morocco, the panels inlaid in lighter brown, with lettering 
in gilt centre, corners filled in with blind tooling in blind, 
and confined in same manner, with two gilt lines, gilt back, 
gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond.: Thomas Purfoote, 1580 


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this translator, which is believed to be almost unknown to bib- 
liographers. THE BINDING IS A FINE AND MOST EFFECTIVE PIECE 
OF THE ENGLISH ART. 


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309. FRENCH PAINTERS. Salon des Aquarellistes Fran- 
cais. Texte de Eugene Montrosier. 40 superb full-page plates 
and 80 charming head and tail pieces in tints by #. De Beau- 
mont, Boivin, Boutet de Monvel, Detaille, Dubufe, Flameng, 
Harpignies, Jeannoit, Lami, Leloir, Meissonier, Madeleine 
Lemaire, Adrien Marie, Baroness Rothschild, Worms, Vibert, 
Lhermitte, and others. 4to, three-quarter red crushed levant 
morocco gilt, gilt top, uncut, by C. CHAMPS, Paris, 1887 


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PAPER. A magnificent collection. 


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310. FRIZON (P. LEONARD). Corollaria Poetica de 
Rebus Aetatis nostre Clarissimis. 16mo, very finely bound 
by Riviere in dark green crushed levant morocco, inside gilt 
borders, watered silk end papers, gilt edges. 


Pictavil (Poitiers), 1665 
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Canadenses Christiana Religione excolentium fortis ac gloriosa 
Mors,’’ is on the perfecting of the Faith by the work of the 
Jesuits in Canada and the deaths of the Martyrs, mentioning 
by name BREBEUF, GABRIEL LALLEMANT, JOGUES, etc.; the sec- 
ond piece is entitled ‘‘Pacificatio Canadensis An. 1654,’’ and 
probably refers to THE PEACE CONCLUDED WITH THE IROQUOIS BY 
Dre LAUSAN IN 1653-54; the third is on THE PERFIDY OF THE 
TROQUOIS IN VIOLATING THE PEACE, possibly the outbreak of 1658. 
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or Dr. DIONNE’S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW FRANCE. 


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311. FROISSART (SIR JOHN). Chronicles of England, 
France, Spain and the adjoining Countries, from the latter 
part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry 
IV. Transl. from the French, with variations, ete., from 
MSS., by Thomas Johnes. With Life, Essay on Froissart’'s 
books, ete. Woodcuts—to which are added (bound wn, in 
their proper places) the full Series of 74 very beautifrl gold- 
heightened illuminated plates, facsimiles of the original paint- 

ingsin MSS. in the British Museum, the Bibliotheque Royale, 
etc. 2 vols. very thick royal 8vo, half morocco extra, backs 
emblematically tooled. Lond. 1855 
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and heard the telling of a tale. 


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THE 1493 EDITION OF GESTA ROMANORUM. 


312. (5 ESTA ROMANORUM cum applicationibus mo- 
ralisatis ac misticis. Gothic character, double 

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signat. 1, a-p. Small folio, panelled calf. Hain, 7747; 
Proctor, 625; Pellechet, 5255. [Strassburg, Printer of the 
1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg | 1493 


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famous novelists and poets, from the earliest times, have ex- 
tracted their plots. A FINE COPY. 


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313. GLAPTHORNE (HENRY). Poems by Henry Glap- 
thorne. Small 4to, full red levant morocco extra, gilt edges, 
by RIVIERE. 

Lond.: Richard Bishop for Daniel Pakeman, 1639 

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being,” as he states in the dedication, ‘‘the earliest flight of 
of her ambition—the maiden studies of his Muse.’ With the 
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ROBERT STAPYLTON, the dramatist (?), on title. A few slight 
defects in some leaves have been restored, otherwise A LARGE 
AND FINE COPY. ; 


314. GOETHE. Works of Goethe, Complete. 36 vols. 
half morocco. Stuttgart, 1894 


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315. GOLDING (ARTHUR). The Abridgement of the 
Historyes of Trogus Pompeius, gathered and written in the 
Latin tongue, by the famous Hystoriographer Justine, and 
translated into Englishe by Arthur Golding; a work briefly 
contayning great plenty of most delectable Histories, and 
notable examples, worthy not only to be read but also to 
be embraced, and followed of all men. BLACK LETTER. 
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RIVIERE, after an original design by Mary Houston. 

Lond.: Thomas Marsh, 1578 
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THE WRITINGS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 


First Editions of ‘‘ The Vicar of Wakefield,’’ ‘‘The Traveller,’ 
‘The Deserted Vil'age,’’ ‘‘ The Good-Natured 
Man,’’ ‘‘Retaliation,’’ etc., etc. 


316. [GOLDSMITH (OLIVER).] The Memoirs of a Prot- 
estant, condemned to the galleys of France for his Religion. 
Written by Himself. Transl. from the original, just pub- 
lished at The Hague. 2 vols. 12mo, contemporary calf. 

* Fine, clean copy of Goldsmith’s First Book. Lond. 1758 


317. [GOLDSMITH (OLIVER).] The Citizen of the 
World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing in 
London, to his Friends in the Kast. FIRST EDN. 2 vols. 
small 8vo, IN THE ORIGINAL CALF, sound copy. 

Lond.: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, 1862 


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318. GOLDSMITH (OLIVER). Essays. By Mr. Gold- 
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Lond.: Printed for W. Griffin, in Fetter Lane, 1765 


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Prospect of Society. A Poem. Inscribed to the Rev. Mr. 
Henry Goldsmith, by Oliver Goldsmith. THE EXCEEDINGLY 
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Lond. : Printed for J. Newberry, in St. Paul’s Church- 
yard, 1755. 

A FINE COPY, 


GOLDSMITH’S MOST FAMOUS WORK, IN THE ORIGINAL CALF, 


320. [GOLDSMITH (OLIVER).] The Vicar of Wakefield; 
A Tale. Supposed to written by Himself. 2 vols. small 8vo, 
IN THE ORIGINAL UNLETTERED CALF. Salisbury; Printed by 
B.Collins for F. Newbery, in Pater-Noster-Row. Lond.1766 


* THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 
BINDING. The Lapham copy, also in original binding, sold in 
these rooms last season for five hundred and seventy dollars. 
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[See Reproduction. ] 
106 


THE 


ven © A’ R 


WAKEFIELD: 
feet A LE: 


Suppofed to be written by Himsexr. 


Sperate miferi, cavete falices. 


Ver Otel. le 


SALISBURY: 


Printed by B. COLLIN §S; 
For F. NewBery, in Pater-Nofter-Row, London. 


MDCCLAVI. 


[GotpsmMITH. THE VicaR oF WAKEFIELD. First EDITION. ORIGINAL CALF. 
SEE No. 320.] 


321. GOLDSMITH (OLIVER). The Good Natur’d Man; 
a Comedy as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Gar- 
den. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. 8vo, full mottled calf, 
gilt, gilt top. Lond. 1768 


* THIS COPY CONTAINS THE RARE HALF-TITLE. ‘The inner 
margin of title has been skillfully repaired. 


FIRST EDITION OF ‘THE DESERTED VILLAGE.” 


322. GOLDSMITH (OLIVER). The Deserted Village, A 
Poem, by Dr. Goldsmith. Vignette view on title. Sm. 4to, hand- 
somely bound in full crushed levant morocco, extra tooled, 
gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond.: Printed for W. Griffin, 1770 


* A FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS 
CELEBRATED POEM. 


FIRST ISSUE OF ‘‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.” 


323. GOLDSMITH (OLIVER). She Stoops to Conquer; © 
or, The Mistakes of a Night. As it is acted at the Theatre- 
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329, HAPPEN ETCHINGS. Fine Arts, Quarterly Re- 

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Bost. 1841 


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erimson straight-grain morocco solander case. 

N. Y. and Lond.: Wiley & Putnam, 1846 
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338. HOBBES (THOMAS). The Elements of | Lawe | 
Naturall and Politique. Manuscriptonpaper. Folio, con- 
temporary vellum. XVIIth Century 


*- Ten unnumbered leaves and 252 pages. This interesting 
work was never published by Hobbes, but circulated among 
his friends in manuscript copies, of which this is evidently one. 
Two similar copies are in the British Museum, one of which has 
corrections in Hobbes’ handwriting. This copy seems to em- 
body all those corrections, since it agrees closely with the text 
of the critical edition, recently edited by Professor Tonnies of 
Kiel, which was also the first edition of the complete work. 
It remained unpublished for 250 years. From the Phillipps 
Library. 


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PRESENTATION COPY. 


339. HOLMES (O. W.) AND EVERETT (ED.). The Ad- 
dress of Mr. Everett and the Poem of Dr. O. W. Holmes at 
the dinner given to Prince Napoleon, September 25, 1861. 
8vo, original glazed yellow boards. uncut. 


Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1861 


* FINE COPY, WITH INSCRIPTION: ‘‘Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie, 
with the kind regards of Edward Everett. Boston, 25 Novw., 
waer.’* 

LAID IN IS A 8-PAGE LETTER OF OLIVER WENDELL HoLMES 
WITH ENVELOPE. A VERY FINE LETTER SHOWING HOW HE IS 
DRIVEN WITH WORK. 

Prince Napoleon was the next heir of Napoleon III., as the 
Little Prince Imperial was only five years old at this time. 
The Civil War had been in progress for six months, and though 
this speech does not mention it, the description of Napoleon I. 
and the French as traditional friends of the Union is signifi- 
cant, 


RIVERSIDE PRESS EDITION ON LARGE PAPER. 


340. HOLMES (O. W.). The Complete Writings of 
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Portraits on Indiapaper. 13 vols. 
8vo, boards, cloth backs, paper labels, uncut. 

Lond. : Printed at the Riverside Press | Cambridge], 1891 


* LARGE PAPER EDITION. No. 19 of only 25 copies printed 
for Europe. 


A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF A RARE EXAMPLE OF 
ENGLISH LITERATURE. 


841. HOLYDAY (BARTEN). Horace, the Best of Ly- 
rick Poets, containing much Morality and Sweetness, to- 
gether with Aulus Persius Flaccus, His Satyres. Translated 
into English by Barten Holyday, sometime Student of 
Christ Church, in Oxford. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDN. 
Small 8vo. Lond. : W. Webb, 1652 


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square and one circular lettered panels, inlaid with green 
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in powdered ground, by RIVIERE. 


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pretty and delicate specimen of binding by Zaehnsdorf of the 
‘‘ Pickering Horace.” 


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343. HORACE. Q. Horatii Flacci Opera. Hitched front. 
8vo, full dark blue crushed levant morocco, the covers en- 
tirely tooled and gilt, gilt tooled back and inside borders, 
gilt edges, by STIKEMAN. Lond. 1883 


* Parchment Library issue, ONE OF ONLY SIX COPIES PRINTED 
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344. HORA. Hore beate marie virginis secundum 
usum Romanum totaliter ad longum sive require. Cum 
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LETTER. 112 unnumbered leaves (1 missing), each page 
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Shepheards; 8. Adoration of the Wise Men; 9. Presentation to 
the Temple; 10. Flight into Egypt; 11. Coronation of the 
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trés d’apres les Manuscripts de la Bibliotheque du Roi par 
Mile. A. Guilbert et publiés sous la Direction de l’Abbé 
Des Billiers. Finely printed throughout in BLACK LETTER, 
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‘*‘ Meuthey Rel. Benard Dor.’’ In purple morocco silk lined 
flat case. Paris: Imprimé par E. Duverger, 1843 


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borders, most of which contain small miniatures, and in addi- 
tion there are four large miniatures, 


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346. HORSMANDEN (DAN’L). A Journal of the Pro- 
ceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by 
some White People, in conjunction with Negro and other 
Slaves, for Burning the City of New York in America, and 


Murdering the Inhabitants . . . containing a Narrative of 
the Trials and Executions . . . Appendix with some Addi- 
tional Evidence . .. and List of the several Persons 


(Whites and Blacks) committed on account of the Con- 
spiracy. By the Recorder of the City of New York (Daniel 
Horsmanden). 4to, full crimson levant gilt, gilt top, other 
edges rough, in cloth slip case. N. Y.: Printed by James 
Parker, at the New Printing Office, 1744. 


* A beautiful copy of the rare original edition, in choice 
binding, with the blank leaf between the Errata and Appen- 
dix. One of the scarcest of New York books, and relating to 
an Important Historical Event in the History of New York 
City. An accidental fire in the fort and, at the same time, a 
discovery of stolen goods in the house of a negro, led to a panic 
in which it was supposed the negroes of the city had conspired 
to destroy the city and kill the white people. Prosecutions 
and executions hastily resulted, and it was only some time 
later that doubts were thrown on the whole affair. Horsman- 
den, who was one of the judges concerned in the condemnation 
of the negroes, wrote this book in defense of his conduct. 


THE FIRST EDITION OF ‘‘ TOM BROWN’S SCHOOL DAYS,” WITH 
AUTOGRAPH LETTER. 


347. [HUGHES (THOMAS).] Tom Brown’s School 
Days. FIRST EDN. 12mo, original cloth, uncut, enclosed 
in cloth wrapper, with cloth covered slip case. Lond. 1857 


. ***Tom Brown’s School Days” was so popular that nearly 
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the author, dated July 6, 1882: 
“In answer to your inquiry all of my books can be had at 
Mess. McMillan’s, 29 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, W. C.” 


348. HUGO (VICTOR). Le Rhin. Lettres a un Ami. 
FIRST EDN. 2 vols. 8vo, half levant morocco. Paris, 1842 


* PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, WITH SIGNED AUTO- 
GRAPH INSCRIPTION. 


NUMBER ONE OF ONLY FIFTY COPIES PRINTED ON JAPAN 
VELLUM. 

349. HUGO (VICTOR). (é£uvres de Victor Hugo. Ro- 
mances, Poesies, Le Theatre, et Giuvres en Prose. L’EDI- 
TION NATIONALE. Printed throughout on Japan vellum, 
and illust. with over 2,500 etchings, by the most distin- 
guished painters and etchers of France. Paris, 1885-1895 


* The text contains all of the suppressed pieces as well as 
the prefaces and unpublished material collated from the orig- 
inal manuscript. 

The printing of this magnificent literary and artistic pro- 
duction of France was done by DiIpoT and LE MAIsOoN CHAME- 
ROT; the engravings by L’Imprimerie SALMON of Paris. 

The illustrations, by over 200 of the greatest artists of 


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Hugo’s time, represent the highest class of painting and en- 

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in France, and contain a greater number of plates than those 
in all existing editions of Moliére, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire 
and Rousseau combined. 

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edition: 

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volume of Costumes to Esmeralda. Copy No. 1 of fifty printed on 
Holland paper, with the plates in duplicate, one set being hand 
colored. Very finely bound in three-quarter crimson levant 
morocco, by R. W. SMITH. 

The cost of production of this monumental work was over 
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represents in this one book all the progress made in the history 
of the fine arts and letters of France. 


UNIQUE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY. 


350. HUNT (LEIGH). The Old Court Suburb; or, Me- 
morials Regal, Critical and Anecdotical. Edited by AUs- 
TIN DOBSON, and finely illust. with original etchings by 
HERBERT RAILTON. 2 vols. square 12mo, new full light 
green crushed levant, blind and gold-tooled backs, inside 
line and dot borders, gilt tops, uncut, by WALTERS. 

Lond. [1901] 


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many scarce historical portraits, including Henry VIII, Thomas 
Gray the poet, Walter Savage Landor, Congreve, Charles II, 
Vanbrugh, Handel, Sir Robert Peel, Inigo Jones, Wilkie, Cole- 
ridge, Lord Holland, Burke, Gibbon, Fox, Dr. Johnson, Linn- 
zeus and numerous others. IN ALL 62 EXTRA PLATES, 


WITH FORTY-FOUR FINE MINIATURES, 


351. FLLUMINATED PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. NTrI- 
ZAMI OF GANJA. ‘‘ Quintuple’’ or ‘‘ Five Treas- 

ures.’? Persian manuscript of the beginning of the X VIIIth 
century, in black and red in four columns on 436 leaves of native 
glazed paper and COLORED BY HAND IN LIGHT BROWN, each 
page within a ruled border of red and blue lines, the first and 
other five pages with a pretty ornamental head-piece illumi- 


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nated in gold and colors; moreover, the manuscript is embel- 
lished WITH 44 VERY FINE AND LARGE PICTURES BEAUTI- 
FULLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD, SILVER AND COLORS, represent- 
ing batiles, punishments, scenes of publicand private life, etc., 
all very interesting on account of the Persian manners and 
costumes they depict, and also of the period in which they 
were executed. Small folio, full green levant morocco, with 
gilt emblematic Persian ornaments in sunk compartments on 
both sides; doublure of old rose Persian morocco, from the 
original binding, gilt borders, giltedges. XVIIIth century. 


* Shaikh Nizami, or Nizzam—uddin Abu Muhammad Ilyas 
bin Yusaf, the great romantic poet of Persia, was born A.D. 
1141. He lived nearly all his life at Ganza, and is, therefore, 
generally known as Nizami of Ganja or Ganjauri. In 1179 he 
published the ‘‘ Storehouse of Mysteries,” his first work. His 
next production was ‘‘ Khusro and Shirin,” a romantic poem 
of the highest order, and taken from ancient Persian history. 
It is said that in the whole range of Persian literature, only 
Firdausi and Fakhrullah Asad Jurjani, the author of the 
earlier romance called ‘‘ Wais and Ramin,” can compete with 
Nizami in the wonderful delineation of character and the 
brilliant picturing of human affections. In 1188 there appeared 
his ‘‘ Diwan,” or collection of Kasidas and ghazals. About 
the same time the great poet commenced his second romantic 
poem, the famous Bedouin love story of ‘‘ Laili and Majnun,” 
which has often been compared with Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. 
This was followed by his ‘‘ Book of Alexander,” or ‘‘ Fortunes 
of Alexander,” an Epic in the style of Firdausi, and divided 
into two parts. In the first part, Alexander is depicted as the 
conqueror of the world; in the second, as prophet, philosopher 
and traveller. Nizami’s last work was the ‘‘ Haft Paikar,” or 
‘““The Seven Fair Faces,” in which he returned to romantic 
fiction. It consisted of seven tales, related by the seven favor- 
ite wives of the Sasanian King Bahram Gorn. The five works 
above mentioned form what is generally known as Nizami’s 
**Quintuple,” or ‘‘ Five Treasures,” and their author died in 
A. D. 1203, much regretted and lamented. 

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PERSIAN ART OF ILLUMINATION OF THE PERIOD. Outer margins 
of some leaves skillfully mended and a few leaves with a worm- 
hole in the lower margin, but in general in excellent condition. 


AN INDIAN ITEM OF RARITY, 


352. INDIANS. Indian Songs of Peace, with a Propo- 
sal, in a Prefatory Epistle for Erecting Indian Schools, and 
a Postscript by the Editor, introducing Yariza, an Indian 
Maid’s Letter, to the principal Ladies of the Province and 
City of New York. By the author of the American Fables. 
8vo, ORIGINAL MARBLED WRAPPERS (name of a former 
owner on title). 

N. Y.: Printed by J. Parker, and W. Wayman, 1752 
* THE First EDITION, AND OF EXTREME RARITY. The copy 
in the collection of E. D. Church is slightly imperfect, and 


is about a quarter of an inch smaller than the above. [Only 
one other copy (that in the Library of Congress) was known to. 


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the compiler (George Watson Cole).] Sabin, IX, No. 34,476, 
unknown to Field, Evans and other bibliographers... ‘‘ There 
is some reason to suppose that this work was written by Dr. 
William Smith, the first Provost of the College and Academy of 
Philadelphia, as the Speech of the Creek Indians was included 
in the second part of his works published in Philadelphia in 
1808.” —CHUROH CATALOGUE. 

Parker was the printer tothe General Assembly. 

The above and the following pamphlets are stitched together, 
evidently about the middle of the eighteenth century: An 
Inquiry into the Fitness of attending Parliament, in a Letter 
from a Member to his Friend, who has Absented, Lond. 1739, 
a scarce pamphlet relating to American Commerce, etc., etc., 
also, Popular Prejudices against the Convention and Treaty 
with Spain, Examin’d and Answer’d, with Remarks on a 
Pamphlet, entitled Considerations upon the Present State of 
our Affairs at Home and Abroad, Lond. 1739. 

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117 


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118 


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371. J E4tTs (JOHN). ENDyMmIon:| A Poetic Ro- 

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372. KEATS (JOHN). 
POEMS, 


BY 
JOHN KEATS 


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KEATS’ LAMIA. FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, 


373. KEATS (JOHN). 
LAMIA, 
ISABELLA, 
THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, 


AND 


OTHER POEMS, 
By JOHN KEATS, 
AUTHOR OF ENDYMION: 


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374. KEATS (JOHN). Poetical Works and Other Writ- 
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and Appendices, by H. Buxton Forman, 4 vols., Lond. 1883; 
Poetry and Prose, a Book of Fresh Verses and New Readings, 
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377. KELMSCOTT PRESS.—Poetical Works of Perey 
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378. KELMSCOTT PRESS.—Morris (W.). Child Chris- 
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The illustrations in this book were printed from process 
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380. TL ACkKor% (PAUL). Works, translated from the. 
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381. LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Amours de 
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and Simonet, after Moreau, IN TWO STATES, ONE BEING 
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FIRST EDITIONS OF THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES 
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“Tales from Shakespeare,’ ‘‘English Dramatic Poets’’ 
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382. [LAMB (CHARLES).] Decimus Junius Juvenalis, 
and Aulus Persius Flaccus, translated by B. Holyday. 
Folio, original calf (in a green crushed levant morocco gilt 
case). Oxford, 1673 


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128 


THE ADVERTISEMENTS OF THRITY-SIX PAGES, dated May 1, 1808, 
WHICH ARE NOT GIVEN IN THE COLLATION BY LIVINGSTON. 

Lamb in writing to his friend William Hone in 1827 regard- 
ing the original publication of the above work, said in part... 
“*For the scarcer plays, I had recourse to the collection be- 
queathed to the British Museum, by Mr. (David) Garrick..... 
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play, that has appeared in print since the time of the old mys- 
teries and moralities to the days of Crown and D’Urfey,’’ ete. 

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384. LAMB (CHARLES). Tales from Shakespeare. De- 
signed for the use of Young Persons. By Charles Lamb. 
Copper-plates engraved by WILLIAM BLAKE. 2 vols. small 
8vo, full green levant morocco, gilt lines on the sides, with gilt 
tooled ornament in the corners, gilt tooled back and inside 
borders, in the manner of Roger Payne, gilt edges, by F. Bup- 
FORD. Lond.: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, 1807. 


* First EDITION, VERY RARE. A VERY FINE AND UNUSUALLY 
TALL COPY. Charles Lamb wrote part of the preface and six of 
the tales—King Lear, Macbeth, Timon, Romeo, Hamlet and 
Othello, and revised the whole. The remainder was written by 
Mary Lamb, the brother considered Othello was his best and 
Mary’s best was Pericles. 


385. LAMB (CHARLES). The Adventures of Ulysses. 
THE RARE First EDN. Frontispiece (small piece of one cor- 
ner supplied) and engraved title. Small 8vo, full dark blue 
 erushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt top, by Roor. Lond. 1808 


* The engraved title is sometimes missing. The success of 
Tales from Shakespeare (which appeared in 1807) induced Lamb 
to prepare the Adventures of Ulysses. Tall copy. 


386. LAMB (CHARLES). Remorse. A Tragedy in five 
Acts. By 8. T. Coueriper. 8vo, half crimson ealf. 
Lond.: Printed for W. Pople, 1813 


* First EpirTion. Inserted is an exceedingly interesting 
autograph written by R. W. ELLISTON, one of the Actors in 
the Tragedy, to which Charles Lamb wrote the Prologue. He 
writes: ‘‘Coleridge’s Tragedy will I should suppose grace our 
Boards by the latter part of next week. It 1s so well written in 
particular parts, that I trust tts interest will keep it in favor 
with the Town, but there is so great a difference between the 
the delight we experience in our Closet Reading, and the Public 
Exhibition of the same Work, that it is impossible to give any 
decided opinion upon the probable success of any untried Drama, 
Poor Charles Lamb, I have known his eccentricities long, but 
you cannot esteem either him or COLERIDGE more than I do,’’ 
ete. 3 pp. 8vo, Surrey Theatre, Jan. 13, 1813. 

‘¢REMORSE’’ appeared at Drury Lane on Jan. 23, 1813, ten — 
days after the date of this very interesting letter, and Elliston 
performed with considerable Success the role of ‘‘Alvar.’? Of 
Lamb’s Prologue the Times of Jan. 25 said: ‘‘The Prologue 
was, we hope, by some d....d good natured friend, who had an 
interest in injuring the play. It was abominable.’’ The run 
of the play extended to twenty nights, however. 


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A COLERIDGE FIRST EDITION, THE GIFT OF CHARLES LAMB, 
WITH THE THEN UNPRINTED MS. OF COLERIDGE’S SON: 


NET ‘‘ FANCY IN NUBIBUS,’’ AND NUMEROUS AUTOGRAPH 
NOTES. 


387. LAMB AND COLERIDGE. Sibylline Leaves; Col- 
lection of Poems. By 8. T. Coleridge, Esq. 8vo, bound by 
RivizRE in full dark green crushed levant, back richly gold- 
tooled, inside borders, raised bands, all edges gilt. Lond. 1817 


* The peculiar personal interest attaching to this volume cen- 
ters around the great names of Lamb and Coleridge. The sheets 
of ‘“‘Sibylline Leaves’’ were printed in 1815, two years before 
publication; and the long list of Hrrata had been noted by the 
author meantime. The first page of these Hrrata, registering 
mistakes and emendations, constituting 173 words of MS., cover- 
ing the first 188 pp. of the book, has been carefully transcribed 
by Coleridge in the pages and lines referred to. But the more 
important interest attaches to the Sonnet ‘‘ Fancy in the Clouds: 
a Marine Sonnet,’’ inscribed in Coleridge’s hand upon the last 
page of the section entitled ‘‘ Meditative Poems in Blank Verse.’’ 
This beautiful poem first appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine in 
the year following this transcription, which is signed and dated 
‘*S. T. Coleridge, Little Hampton, Oct. 1818.’’? The lines are 
as follows: 


“*O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease 
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, 
To make the shifting clouds be what you please, 
Or bid the easily persuaded eyes 
Own each strange likeness issuing from the mould 
Of a friend’s fancy; or, with head bow’d low, 
And cheeks aslant, see rivers flow of gold 
’Twiat crimson banks; and then a traveller go 
From mount to mount through Cloudland, gorgeous land: 
Or, listening to the tide, with closed sight, 
Be that blind Bard, who, on the Chian strand, 
By those deep sounds possess’d with inward light, 
Beheld the Illiad and the Odyssee 
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea!’’ 


Ag printed, there are four important verbal changes: The 
title reads, ‘‘Fancy in Nubibus; or The Poet in the Clouds; ’’ 
in 1. 4, for ‘‘bid’’ read ‘‘let;’’ in 1. 5, for ‘‘strange’’ read 
‘‘quaint;’’ in line 6, for ‘‘bow’d’ read ‘‘bent.’’ 


Nothing could have been more characteristic of the everyday 
habits of the author of ‘‘Christabel’’ and ‘‘ Kubla Khan’’ be- 
ginning the Errata corrections and leaving off in their midst ; 
and scarcely one of his shorter poems could have been selected 
by Coleridge’s keenest student to characterize so well the mind 
of its author: ‘‘Fancy in the Clouds!’’ As for the one blot 
upon the beauty of the sonnet, the obsérvation of Mr. T. Ashe, 
in his edition of Coleridge’s Poetical Works, seems just: ‘‘ We 
can only suggest that Coleridge, pronouncing this word Odyss-ee, 
did not observe the false rhyme.’’ [For some reason the sheet, 
of which this page constitutes the reverse, lacks a sixteenth of 
an inch of the regular height. | 

An undecided question, and one which affords entertaining 
ground for speculation, is the matter of some penciled notes 
upon pp. 25, 29, and 295. The handwriting may be that of 
either Coleridge or Lamb; that on pp. 25 and 29, as well as the 


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character of the comment, points to Coleridge: In ‘*The Rime 
of the Ancient Mariner’’ (p. 25) in the margin beside this 
famous stanza, 
“*It ceased, yet still the sails made on 

A pleasant noise till noon, 

A noise like of a hidden brook 

In the leafy month of June, 

That to the sleeping woods all night 

Singeth a quiet tune,’’ 


occurs this pencilled exclamation: 
““Oh sweet and pleasant Memory!’’ 


and in the same poem (p. 29) in the margin beside the passage, 


““The air is cut away before, 
And closes from behind,’’ 


these words have been pencilled: 


‘“Plan of the Atmospheric 
Railway. These lines were 
written long before that 
was dreamt of !’’ 


On p. 295 the comment consists of a brief Latin quotation. On 
this page also occurs a pencilled typographical correction, which 
had escaped the critical eye of the author; an instance dupli- 
cated on p. 188. There are other slight marks and underscorings 
by some attentive reader, probably Lamb. 

The close friendship existing between Lamb and Ooleridge 
from Christ’s Hospital days to their death in 1834, is well 
known, yet perhaps the following passage from Mr. Hall Caine’s 
Life of Coleridge may not be superfluous: 


““Towards the end he [S. T. C.] grew anxious as to not hav- 
ing seen much of Charles Lamb latterly, and he wrote a touching 
letter hinting at his faults as a friend. But Lamb had never 
ceased to love him; ‘if you ever thought an offence, much less 
wrote it against me, it must have been in the tvmes of Noah, and 
the great waters swept it away. Mary’s most kind love... 
here she is crying for mere love over your letter.’ The beauti- 
ful friendship was to end as it begun. Early in 1834, Coleridge, 
in memory of the days of that visit of the ‘gentle Charles’ to 
Stowey in 1797, wrote these words under the poem beginning, 
‘This Lime-tree Bower my Prison’: [See p. 189, ‘‘Sibylline 
Leaves’’] ‘Charles and Mary Lamb, dear to my heart, you, as 
it were my heart.’ In a copy of Beawmont and Fletcher he 
wrote— 


‘¢ ‘MIDNIGHT. 


““ “God bless you, dear Charles Lamb; I am dying: I feel I 
have not many weeks left. 
“<<Mr, Gillman’s, Highgate.’ — 

“Death came suddenly to Coleridge.... ‘Coleridge is dead,’ 
Lamb muttered: to himself continually. ‘Coleridge is dead, Cole- 
ridge is dead!’ To the woman who had nursed his friend, Lamb 
gave five guineas when he went to Highgate for the first time 
after the funeral. ‘His great and dear spirit haunts me,’ Lamb 
wrote a little later. ‘He was my fifty-year-old friend without 
dissension. Never saw I his likeness, nor probably the world can 
see it again.’ Lamb himself died before the end of the year.’’ 


In a hand which occurs elsewhere in this volume, in a margin 
of ‘‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’’ (p. 190), the word 
‘*Lamb’’ has been pencilled, and over-written ‘‘C. Lamb’’ in 


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ink, in reference to the ‘‘Charles’’ of the following quoted 

passage: 
‘< ,.. but thou, methinks, most glad 

My gentle-hearted Charles! for thou has pined 

And hungered after Nature, many a year 

In the great City pent, winning thy way 

With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain 
And strange calamity!’’ 


The poem was written for Charles and Mary Lamb in June, 
1797, during their visit to Coleridge’s cottage at Nether Stowey. 


388. LAMB (CHARLES). The Works of Charles Lamb. 
FIRST COLLECTED EDN., 2 vols. PRESENTATION COPY FROM 
CHARLES LAMB to Bernard Barton, the famous Quaker 
Poet. 12mo, ORIGINAL BOARDS, entirely uncut, with paper 
labels. Enclosed in a cloth wrapper and inserted in a cloth 
slip case. Lond. 1818 

* A fine uncut copy of this scarce edition. It was purchased 
from the Bernard Barton Library. On the title-page is written 
in the handwriting of Bernard Barton: ‘‘ Presented to me by the 
author, 8/28/1822, on which day I dined and drank tea with 
him at his lodgings, 20 Great Russell Street, Covent Garden.” 
Inserted in Volume 1 is a long, closely written four-page 
quarto letter in the autograph of Bernard Barton and signed 
‘*B. B.,” dated July 28th, 1844 (Bernard Barton was the father- 
in-law of Edward Fitzgerald). This letter is to F. B. Bright- 
well, London, and refers to various art and literary matters, 


INTERESTING COPY OF THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. 


389. LAMB(CHARULKS). Elia. Essays which have ap- 
peared under that Signature in the London Magazine; also, 
The Last Essays of Elia, being a Sequel to Essays published 
under that name. 2 vols. 12mo, full polished calf extra, 
gilt edges and inside borders, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1822-33 

* First Editions. Beautiful copies. Rare. Inserted in Vol. I 
is an interesting memorandum in Lamb’s handwriting signed 
C. Lamb, relating to shares to be allotted to various Book- 


sellers, and no doubt referring to the unsold copies in stock. 
Richard Le Gallienne’s bookplate in each volume. 


390. [LAMB (CHARLES).] Satan in Search of a Wife; 
with the whole process of his Courtship and Marriage, and 
who Danced at the Wedding. By An Eye Witness. THE 
RARE FIRST EDN. Jilust. Small 8vo, full blue crushed 
levant morocco extra, gilt top. Lond. 1831 


* Fine copy. 


391. LAMB (CHARLES and MARY). The Works of 
Charles and Mary Lamb. Edited by E. V. Lucas. Por- 
traits. 8 vols. 8vo, newly bound in half polished morocco, 


gilt tops. Lond. 1903 
* HANDSOME SET of Methuen’s Library Edition. 


127 


OF THE UTMOST RARITY AND A REMARKABLY FINE COPY, 


392. LAS CASAS (BARTHOLOME DE). The Spanish 
Colonie, or Briefe Chronicle of the Acts and gestes of the 
Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World. 
And nowe first translated into english, by M. M. 8S. Small 
4to, purple levant morocco, elaborately tooled, green silk 
fly-leaves, gilt edges, some leaves uncut, by W. PRATT. 

| Lond.: for William Brome, 1583 
* AN IRREPROACHABLE COPY (PERHAPS THE FINEST THAT HAS 
SURVIVED) OF THIS EXCESSIVELY RARE VOLUME. ONLY ONE 
COPY, AND THAT WITH TWO LEAVES IN FACSIMILE, SUCCESSIVELY 
IN THE BARLOW, IVES AND LEFFERTS LIBRARIES, SEEMS TO 
HAVE BEEN OFFERED AT AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. 
The translation is not made from the Spanish, but from the 
French version of Jacques de Miggrode, published first in 1579. 
. In the heading of ‘‘To the Reader” here, this name is mis- 
spelled, and we are informed that the book was ‘‘ faithfully 
translated by James Aliggrodo, to serve as a President and 
warning to the xij Provinces of the lowe Countries.” The 
translation includes the whole of tracts I and II, printed in 
black letter, and parts of Nos. III and V, printed in Roman. 
One chapter of the first part of the book tells ‘‘ of the Provinces 
of the firme land or quarter that is called Florida,” and of the 
persecutions there. This is the first edition in English. ) 


393. LEECH COLORED PLATES. A’Beckett (Gilbert 
Abbott). The Comic History of England, 2 vols., Punch 
Office, 1847-1848; The Comie History of Rome, Bradbury, 
n. d. [1850]. The set embellished. with 30 fine humorous 
colored plates by John Leech, and about 300 cuts in the teat 
by the same artist. BOTH SERIES FIRST EDNS., each volume 
having one of the monthly part pictorial covers bound in. 
Together 3 vols. 8vo, bound in full maroon polished mo- 
rocco, edges scraped, with top edges gilt, by Root. 

Lond. 1847-50 


* A VERY FINE SET. Asa specimen of the united humor of 
author and artist of the period, the set is thoroughly repre- 
sentative, and in the very front rank. A’Beckett was one of 
the leading spirits of ‘‘ Punch’s” vigorous youth; and Leech 
was one of the foremost artists of his time. 


394. LEECH (JOHN). Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (by 
R. 8. Surtees. FIRST EDN. 13 colored plates and numer- 
ous text illusts. by Leech. 8vo, original cloth, gilt edges 
(worn). Lond. 1853 


* Inserted is AN ORIGINAL DRAWING, ‘‘ GOING TO COVER,’ BY 
LEECH, WITH SIGNATURE, 


395. LE SAGE. Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. 4 
vols. 8vo, three-quarter levant morocco, gilt baeks, gilt 
tops. LARGE PAPER COPY. Lond. 1803 

* EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 24 fine plates en- 


graved on steel by Engleheart, Romney, etc., after Smirke, 
ALL PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER (slightly foxed). 


128 


396. LEVER (CHARLES). Diary and Notes of Horace 


Templeton, Esq., late Secretary of Legation at ——. THE 
RARE FIRST EDN. 2 vols. post 8vo, ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH, 
UNCUT. Lond. 1848 


* ONE OF THE HARDEST OF LEVER FIRST EDNS. TO PROCURE IN 
ORIGINAL CLOTH, no copy of it apparently having been sold by 
auction in this country for many years. 


397.. LEVER (CHARLES). Confessions of Con Cregan, 
the Irish Gil Blas. Wath dllusts. on wood and steel by Hab- 
lot kK. Browne. 2vols. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt, un- 
cut. Lond. [1850] 
* THE FIRST EDN. AND A FINE COPY. 'I'HIS BOOK IS THE 

RAREST OF THE WORKS OF THE POPULAR IRISH NOVELIST TO 
OBTAIN IN COLLECTOR’S CONDITION, THIS BEING THE FIRST COPY 


THAT HAS APPEARED IN YEARS THAT COULD BE CLASSED AS ‘‘A 
FINE COPY.”’ 


WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY PHIZ INSERTED. 


398. LEVER (CHARLES). Roland Cashel. With the 
fine full-page illusis. by Phiz (A. K. Browne) and an origi- 
nal drawing by Phiz, signed, of the plate ‘‘ Bravo Toro” 
anserted. FIRST EDN. 8vo, handsomely bound in full 
maroon morocco extra, full floreated gilt back, gilt inside 
border, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. FINE copy. Lond. 1850 


FIRST DATED EDITION OF LIVY, ONE OF THE GREAT MOND- 
MENTS OF TYPOGRAPHY, THE FIRST COPY TO BE 
OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. 


399. LIVIUS. Drcapss. Fol. 1 r.: [F] Austo ac felici 
solo tuam Vrbem Pater Beatissime Paule. II. Venete | 
Pont. Maxie:... ends fol. 3 r., lin. 13: ... | transeamus. 
Vale. Same fol., lin. 14: [A|DVENTVS ENE IN ITALIAM. 
ET RES] ab eo geste. fol. 24, a blank. Fol. 25, r., BE- 
GINNING OF FIRST DECA: [F]ACTVRVS NE SIM OPER 
PREcii: | si a primordio.. . ends fol. 170 v, lin. 27; fol. 
171, a blank. Fol. 172 r., beginning of the THIRD DECA: 
[I]N PARTE OPERIS MEI LICET PREZFARIA MIHI | quod in 
principio... ends fol. 311 r., lin. 45; fol. 311 v. blank. 
Fol. 312 r., beginning of the FouRTH DEcA: [T]E QVOQVE 
IVVAT. VELVT IPSE | in parte laboris. . . ends fol. 420, lan. 
83; bidui ualitudinis causa & per omnia Fora Conciliabu- 
laq3 edixerunt. Same folio, lin. 84: .M.CCCC.LXX. |... 
Et Vindelino debebis tu quoq3: formis | Egregie impressit 
has modo qui decadas: | Atq3 ipsas iisdem scenis uelut 
hostibus acri | Bello oppugnatas fortiter eripuit. | .. . fol. 
421, a blank. EMBELLISHED WITH 31 FINE AND LARGE 

129 


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BY A VENETIAN ARTIST, some in the interlaced style, and 
some painted on a delicately colored ground, filled with very 
pretty ornaments, flowers, leaves, in blank, red, etc. Folio, 
in an eighteenth century English binding of red morocco, 
gold paneled sides (slightly rubbed). A FINE AND LARGE 
COPY, measuring 14% x 10 inches. 

Venice: VINDELIN DE SPIRA, 1470 


* Roman character long lines, 419 unnumbered leaves without 
signatures and catchwords. Hain Copinger, 10130; Proctor, 
4028; Brunet, III, 1102. f 

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‘‘THE MOST SPLENDID CLASSICAL MONUMENT OF THE PRESS OF 
VINDELIN DE Sprra ” (Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, Vol. I, 
p. 161) and De Bure (Bibliographic Instructive, No. 4801), 
say that this edition is prodigiously rare and much sought 
after; that its execution is splendid and that it must be con- 
sidered as THE MASTERPIECE OF VINDELIN. THIS IS THE FIRST 
COPY EVER OFFERED FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION IN 
AMERICA; and with the exception of two blank leaves missing, 
which are hardly worth mentioning, is ONE OF THE MOST 
BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT COPIES KNOWN, superior to those of 
the British Museum and the Uambridge University Library, 
which have each 418 leaves, while the one here offered for sale 
has 419 leaves (thus accounting for the blank leaf 171, which is 
not in the two mentioned copies). FROM THE SUNDERLAND 
LIBRARY. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


400. LOCKER-LAMPSON (FREDERICK). 


POEMS 
by 
Frederick Locker 
[Not Published. ] 
London: 
John Wilson, 93 Great Russell Street 
1868 


Large Paper copy (of which only 20 were issued), wath proof 

on India paper of the Cruikshank frontispiece entitled, 

“The Fairy Bootmaker.’’ Square 8vo, half roxburghe, 

cloth sides, gilt top, uncut. Lond.: Privately printed, 1868 
* With autograph letter signed from the author inserted. 


THE FOLIO EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS COLLECTION. 


401. LODGE (EDMUND). Portraits of Illustrious Per- 
sonages of Great Britain, with Biographical and Historical 
Memoirs. With 240 fine portraits, on a larger scale than in 
the subsequent editions. 4 vols. imp. folio, half morocco, 
top edges gilt. Lond. 1821-84 


*The original splendid subscription edition. The portraits 
are engraved on a larger scale than in the 8vo edition, and on 
copper instead of steel. These plates were destroyed immedi- 


130 


ey 


Apo 


. Fala dat laurentem 
egreflt Uroianicut quibus 


[Livy. Works. First Datep EDITION. VENICE, 1470. SEE No. 399.] 


ately on the publication of a few copies of this original edition. 
The above magnificent and beautiful work fully bears out Sir 
Walter Scott’s eulogium as ‘‘a collection which at once satis- 
fies the imagination and the understanding, showing us by the 
pencil how the most distinguished of our ancestors looked, 
moved and dressed, and informs us by the pen how they 
thought, acted, lived and died.” 


402. LONGFELLOW (H. W.). The Golden. Legend. 
Illust. with 50 engravings on wood from designs by Birket 
Foster and Jane Hay. 8vo, full dark green levant extra, 
with inlays of flowers, dots, lines, etc., gilt edges, by 
RIVIERE. Lond. 1854 

* A MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN OF BINDING. ‘The design is of 
sunflowers inlaid in gold and black on a moss green background 


‘of crushed levant, enriched by a thickly powdered gold em- 
bellishment. 


LOUDON’S INDIAN NARRATIVES, 2 VOLS., ORIGINAL SHEEP. 


408. LOUDON (ARCHIBALD). A Selection of some of 
the most interesting Narratives of Outrages Committed by 
the Indians in Their Wars with The White People. An 
Account of their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious 
Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tacties, Discipline 
and Hnecampments, Treatment of Prisioners, ete. 2 vols. 
small 12mo, original sheep. 

Carlisle: From the Press of A. Loudon, 1808-11 


*Thomas W. Field, the first bibliographer and greatest au- 
thority on Indian Books, calls these two volumes of Loudon’s 
**the rarest of books on American Indian history.”: And he 
says further: ‘‘ A large correspondence with book collectors, 
and not a little familiarity with the best of public and private 
libraries. have brought to my notice but three perfect copies of 
this work. The popularity of its subject, which caused its con- 
stant perusal at country firesides, combined with the fragility 
of the soft cotton paper upon which it is printed, insured its 
rapid destruction.” 

The margins of the front and back leaves of the first volume 
of this copy have been thumbed and frayed, but no more than 
a few letters (if any) of the text is missing. 


404. LOWELL (MARIA). The Poems of Maria Lowell. 
(Edited by Jas. Russell Lowell.) Portrait (photographic). 
Square 12mo, original brown cloth lettered in gilt, gilt 
edges. Cambridge: Privately printed, 1855 


* THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE EXQUISITE LITTLE 
VOLUME OF POEMS OF LOWELL’S FIPST WIFE. She it was who 
encouraged him to publish ‘‘ A Year’s Life,” and of them and 
her Lowell said: ‘‘ Were they a thousand times more beautiful, 
they could not be so much so as she is to me.” 

The Arnold copy, with ex-libais. ONLY 50 COPIES WERE 
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AMONG THEIR FRIENDS. 


131 


THIRD SESSION. 


405. ACAULAY (THOMAS B.). The Works of 

Macaulay. Viz.: The History of England, 

5 vols.; Critical Essays, 3 vols.; and Miscellaneous Writ- 

ings, 2 vols. Together 10 vols. 8vo, full polished light 
ealf, gilt, bevelled boards, marbled edges. 


Lond.: Longmans, 1849-1860 
* The best edition. FINE SET. 


MADDEN’S IRISHMEN: ALL THREE SERIES. 


406. MADDEN (R. R.). The United Irishmen, their 
Lives and Times (first series), 2 vols, Lond. 1842, second 
series, 2 vols., Lond. 18438, third series, 3 vols., Dublin, 
1846. Portraits. 7 vols. 8vo, new half green crushed 
levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, by ZAEHNSDORF. 

Lond. 1842-46 


* A VERY FINE AND COMPLETE SET OF ALL THREE SERIES. 
SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE IN COMPLETE SETS, 


407. MALORY (SIR THOMAS). Le Morte d’Arthur. 
The Original Edition of William Caxton, reprinted and 
edited, with an Introduction and Glossary by H. Oskar 
Sommer. With an Essay on Malory’s Prose Style by An- 
drew Lang. With facsimiles, charts, etc. 3 vols. royal 
Ato, finely bound in FULL BLACK CRUSHED LEVANT MO- 
ROCCO, exquisitely blind tooled, gilt lined inside borders, 
gilt tops, uncut, by ZAEHNSDORF. 

Lond.: David Nutt, 1889-90 


* LARGE PAPER EDITION, limited to 108 copies, signed by the 
publisher. Thisis No. 3. A SUPERB SET. 


MANUSCRIPTS. 


A Remarkable Collection of Manuscripts from the Tenth 
to the Eighteenth Centuries. 


A TENTH-ELEVENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF THE 
HIGHEST IMPORTANCE. 

408. MANUSCRIPT. Aveustinus (8.). Confessionum libri 
XIII. Fol. 1 r.: IN NoMINE pomIn1 INcIPIVNT LIBRI CON | 
FESSIONVM AVRELII AVGVSTINI. | Ma@nvs es poMINE. & lauda- 
bilis ualde. 7 magna uirtus | tua. & sapientie tue non est 
numerus. ... Fol. 111 r., lin. 23: | sie sie accipietur sic 
inuenietur. sic aperietur.; | ExprictivnT LIBRI CONFESSIONVM 

133 


AVRELII AVGVS | TINI. DEO GRATIAS AMEN. Fol. 111 v., blank. 
MS. ON VELLUM BY AN ENGLISH SorIBE oF THE X-XI CEN- 
TURIES, WITH FINE ORNAMENTAL INTERLACED LARGE INITIALS ON 
RED GROUND TO EACH BOOK, AND THE HEADINGS OF EACH BOOK 
WRITTEN IN RUSTIC CAPITALS. 111 leaves. Square quarto, old 


ealf, SAEC X-XI 


* A VERY INTERESTING MANUSCRIPT, AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE 
MOST ANCIENT OF THIS CELEBRATED BOOK IN EXISTENCE, The 
City of God and the CoNFEssions of St. Augustin are the works 
by which this celebrated and great father of the Church ig best 
known, the one being the highest expression of his thought and 
the other the best monument of his living piety and Christian ex- 
perience. The CONFESSIONS were written shortly after he be- 
came bishop, about A. D. 397, and give a vivid sketch of his 
early life and career. To the devout utterances and aspirations 
of a great soul they add the charm of personal disclosure, and 
have never ceased to excite admiration. The CONFESSIONS have 
been translated in every Christian tongue and are classed with 
the choicest memorials of devotion both in Catholic and Pro- 
testant Oratories. 


The above manuscript, FROM THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, was 
sold together with six other manuscripts of the same author, at 
Sotheby’s March, 1895, and described in the Catalogue as all 
belonging to the XIIth century, an error, at least in regard to 
the one here offered for sale, as it is evidently older and its date 
ean be established as late as the Xth, or very early XIth cen- 
tury. Of this several proofs could be given, but the following 
are sufficient: (1.) The form of the minuscule r, the lower 
limb of which is prolonged in direct line and the upper limb 
more extended, a characteristic which ends with the 11th cen- 
tury, while in manuscripts of the 12th century the lower limb-is 
not only less prolonged, but also slightly curved at end, and the 
upper limb shorter and somewhat angular; (2.) The termina- 
tion of words in nt and ms are written with a capital N, the 
upper part of the second vertical line being prolonged and cut 
by an horizontal line, or being curved to the right, so to form 
a t or an s, as the case requires; (3.) The headings to each book 
written in rustic capital, a characteristic, which is to be found 
very seldom after the XIth century; (4.) The long words are 
separated, but short prepositions and conjunctions are joined to 
the next following word, a characteristic, which begins to dis- 
appear with the XIth century, when smaller words were finally 
detached and stood apart; (5.) Certain forms of abbreviations 
peculiar only to early manuscripts, as s; for sed, b; for bus, q; 
for qui, ete.; (6.) The form of the volume, which is almost 
square; etc. 

THE ABOVE MANUSCRIPT BELONGED ONCE TO THE FAMOUS 
MONASTERY OF READING, and we quote here as proof the note of 
Phillips Catalogue (March, 1895, No. 43): ‘‘SEVEN VOLUMES 
.... FORMERLY PART OF THE LIBRARY OF THE FAMOUS MONASTERY 
AT READING AND ESPECIALLY MENTIONED IN THE HISTORY OF THAT 
ABBEY. IN SOME OF THE VOLUMES WE READ ‘Liber Sancte 
Marie de Radingis quem qui celaverit anathema sit.’ ETC. JAMES 
BOWEN, A FORMER OWNER WHO HAD THESE VOLUMES REBOUND, 
NOTES THAT THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION WAS UPON THE OLD COVERS. 
J. REYNOLDS SEEMS TO HAVE HAD THESE MSS., AND THERE IS 
BUT LITTLE DOUBT THAT HE OBTAINED THEM AT THE DISSOLUTION 
OF THE MONASTERY. WRITTEN BY AN ENGLISH SCRIBE ON VEL- 
LUM, WITH PAINTED CAPITALS. ’’ 


18% 


ST. MATTHEW’S GOSPEL OF THE XIIrH CENTURY. 


409. MANUSCRIPT. Evangelium S. Matthaei cum glossis. 
MS. on vellum executed in England about the middle of the 
AIIth century, the text written in an elegant and large semi- 
gothic character and the gloss in a small Gothic, with many 
marginal notes. The first letter of the Gospel, an L, ts ilumi- 
nated in gold. 4to, old vellum. XIIth century 


“ A VERY INTERESTING MS. The gloss is interlineary and ordi- 
nary, the latter being arranged on each side of the text. 
MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GOSPELS OF ENGLISH EXECUTION OF SUCH 
ANTIQUITY AS THE ABOVE ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE, AND TO-DAY 
ARE TO BE SEEN ONLY AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND A FEW OF 
THE PRINCIPAL ENGLISH LIBRARIES, 


MANUSCRIPT OF CICERO WRITTEN IN THE FOURTEENTH 
CENTURY. 


410. MANUSCRIPT. Cicero (M. T.). De Officiis libri 
III. MS. of the end of the XIVth century finely written in 
neat and elegant Gothic character by an Italian hand on 48 


leaves of vellum, with initials painted in blue and red. Small 
folio, old ealf gilt. Saec. XIV. 


* A VERY INTERESTING AND VALUABLE MANUSCRIPT, AS ARE ALL 
THOSE OF THE CLASSICS, AND ESPECIALLY OF CICERO PREVIOUS TO 
THE INVENTION OF PRINTING. On a leaf of vellum at the be- 
ginning are THE TWO FAMOUS PSEUDO-LETTERS OF PONTIUS 
PILATUS TO TIBERIUS AND OF LENTULUS To THE ROMAN SENATE 
CONTAINING THE RELATION OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST, written by 
a hand of the first part of the XVth century. Four leaves of 
vellum at end contain a very interesting Epistle addressed to 
the King of Cyprus regarding the continuous progress of Baja- 
zet I, Emperor of the Turks. Another addressed to the Doge of 
of Genova regarding internal affairs of Italy, dated Padua 1381, 
and two treatises written in treble columns, apparently unedited, 
on Latin Grammar and quantities [one in verse and one in 
prose]. At the end of the ‘‘De Officiis’’? is the following 
cryptographic note by one of the owners of the book (XVth 
century): ‘‘M25s ist2 13b2r 2st 124n1ird3 b4n8 quédim Ingh3’?” 
(Meus iste liber est Leonardi Boni quondam Ingherami), the 
numbers, it will be seen taking the place of the corresponding 
vowels. The same note is repeated with dots for vowels, one dot 
representing a, two dots c, and so on. -Then follows an attempt 
to write the note in Greek, and a specimen Latin Alphabet with 
various forms of the capital letters. On the verso of the last 
leaf is a Latin verse of eleven lines, containing a description of 
the winds, with a diagram; and a specimen Greek Alphabet, 
with different forms of the letters and a few contractions. A 
BEAUTIFUL MS, IN FINE CONDITION AND WITH VERY LARGE MAR- 
GINS. 


A FINELY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, HAVING NINETEEN 
MINIATURES. 


411. MANUSCRIPT. Hore Beatz Marie Virginis cum 
Calendario. Manuscript of the end of the XVth century, 
probably executed in the North of France, finely written im 
red and black Gothic character, and the Calendar wm gold, 
blue, red and black. 130 leaves. Beautifully ornamented 

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[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, WITH 
NINETEEN MINIATURES. SEE No. 411.] 


with 11 LARGE MINIATURES, AND 8 SMALLER ONES, with 15 il- 
luminated borders on gold ground, composed of fruits, flowers, 
birds, animals, scrolls, etc., and hundreds of large and small 
wdluminated initials. 8vo, full maroon crushed levant mo- 
rocco extra, the sides blind tooled in the style of the French 


binding of the XVth century, blind tooled back, gilt edges, by 
ZAEHNSDORF. Saec. XV. 


*The Saints, whose names are written in gold in the calen- 
dar, are the following: ‘‘La Circomsision Nostre Seigneur, ’? 
‘*Saincte Geneviefve,’’ ‘‘1’Epiphanie Nostre Seigneur’’ (Janu- 
ary); ‘‘La Purification Nostre Dame’? (February) ; ‘‘L’Anon- 
ciation Nostre Dame’’ (March) ; ‘‘La Nativite St. Jehan Bap- 
tiste’’ (Juin) ; ‘‘lL.’Assumption Nostre Dame’? (August); ‘‘La 
Nativité Nostre Dame’’ (September); ‘‘La Feste de tous 
Saincts’’ (November) ; ‘‘La Conception Nostre Dame;’’ ‘‘La 
Nativité Nostre Seigneur’’ and ‘‘St. Jehan Apostre et Evange- 
list’? (December). THE LARGE MINIATURES ARE THE FOLLOW- 
ING: 1. Meeting of the Virgin with St. Elizabeth; 2. The Na- 
tivity; 3. The Adoration of the Wise Men; 4. The Presentation 
in the Temple; 5. Flight into Egypt; 6. The Death of the Vir- 
gin; 7. The Coronation of the Virgin; 8. Christ carrying the 
Cross; 9. The Descent of the Holy Ghost; 10. King David ad- 
miring Bathsheba; 11. A Burying. AN EXCEEDINGLY CHOICE 
EXAMPLE. ‘THE MINIATURES OF THIS CHARMING BOOK OF HouRS 
ARE AS FINE AND FRESH AND BRILLIANT AS WHEN THEY CAME 
FROM THE HAND OF THE ARTIST. Preserved in a crushed levant 
morocco slip case. 

[See Reproduction. ] 


FIFTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT, WITH SEVENTEEN 
MINIATURES. 


412. MANUSCRIPT. MHorz Beate Marie Virginis cum 
Calendario. Manuscript of the XVth century executed im 
France, written in red and black Gothic characters on 165 
leaves of choice vellum, the Calendar finely written im gold, 
blue and red, having a miniature on the sides of each page 
occupied by rt, representing alternately the occupations of the 
months and the signs of the zodiac. Moreover elegantly orna- 
mented with 17 large mimatures in gold and colors, 19 smaller 
ones, and every page embellished by an elegant semi-border on 
gold ground, composed of scrolls, flowers, fruits, etc., besides 
hundreds of pretty ornamental initials on gold ground. Small 
8vo, old French morocco gilt, gilt edges, by Dusrumm. Saec XV. 

. * A FINE AND UNUSUAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, ESPECI- 
“ALLY ON ACCOUNT OF THE MINIATURES REPRESENTING THE OCCU- 
PATIONS OF THE MONTHS AND THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC, WHICH 
VERY SELDOM OCCUR IN THESE PRAYER BOOKS, BEING EXECUTED 
ONLY IN THE DE LUXE ONES. The large miniatures are: 1. 
Martyrdom of a St. Virgin; 2. St. John the Evangelist; 3. 
Adam and Eve; 4. The Annunciation; 5. The Virgin Kneeling 
before the Eternal Father; 6. King David sending Uriah to the 


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War; 7. David admiring Bathsheba; 8. The Crucifixion; 9. The 
The Descent of the Holy Ghost; 10. The Sufferings of Job; 
11. Meeting of the Virgin with St. Elizabeth; 12. The Nativity; 
13. Announcement to the Shepheards; 14. The Wise Men ador- 
ing the Infant Jesus; 15. The Presentation in the Temple; 
16. Flight into Egypt; 17. The Virgin with the Child. The 
miniatures are somewhat worn and discolored and a few of 
the borders slightly shaved. 


FIFTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT, WITH TWELVE 
MINIATURES. 

413. MANUSCRIPT. Hore B. V. M. (eum Calendario) 
ad Usum Romanum. Vellum Manuscript probably of French 
execution, written in Gothic letter, 238 leaves measuring 33% x 
214, in. ILLUSTRATED BY 12 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES WITH A 
FLOREATE BORDER, and hundreds of wutial letters, large and 
small, illuminated and some listoriate. Bound in brown levant 
morocco gilt. A former binder has eut into the borders of 
some of the miniatures, and the designs in some cases have 
been rubbed and slightly damaged. Saec. XV. 


* The manuscript commences with the ‘*Hore de Sancto 
Spiritu,’’ and the ‘‘ Hore de Sancta Cruce.’’ The 12 minia- 
tures represent The Madonna and Child, The Annunciation, 
Visitation of Elizabeth, The Nativity, The Angel and Shepherds, 
Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, The Mas- 
sacre of the Innocents, Flight into Egypt, Assumption of the 
Virgin, King David (to the Penitential Psalms), and the Ser- 
vice for the Dead. 


A FIFTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT, WITH EIGHT 
MINIATURES. 

414. MANUSCRIPT. Hore Beate Marie Virginis cum 
Calendario. Manuscript of the XVth century of French Exe- 
cution written in red and black Gothic character on 77 leaves 
of vellum, the Calendar in blue, red and black; ornamented 
with 8 interesting large mimatures painted in gold and colors 
and 8 borders illuminated in gold and colors, composed of 
scrolls, leaves, flowers, etc.; besides a great number of pretty 
ornamental initials in gold and colors. 8vo, old velvet bind- 
ing. Saec. XV. 


* The miniatures represent: 1. Christ before Herod; 2. The 
Flagellation; 3. Christ crowned with thorns; 4. A Burying; 
5. The Crucifixion; 6. Christ taken from the Gross; 7. The Be- 
trayal of Jesus in "the Garden of the Olives; 8. King David in 
prayer. The miniatures are slightly worn or discolored, and 
the borders somewhat cut into. 


MANUSCRIPT WITH HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING, 


415. MANUSCRIPT. Orationes et Preces varixe. MS. on vel- 
lum of the XVth century neatly written in Gothic character in 
red and black on 60 leaves, with hundreds of initials painted in 
blue and red, executed in Germany for the use of a Convent 
of Nuns, and containing several orations, litanies, psalms and 
hymns, WITH MUSIC NOTED ON FOUR LINES. Small 4to, con- 
temporary binding in pigskin, the upper cover blind tooled 


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with a central panel of three roses within flowers, surrounded 
by a border of fleur-de-lis, and the name of ‘‘Maria’’ repeated 
five times; the lower cover divided in four triangles, having a 
blind tooled large fleuron in the centre, and with original 
clasp of beaten brass and leather. Saec. XV. 
Pa very fine and perfect specimen of German binding of the 

period, with the date 1496 inscribed on the inside of the lower 

cover. BINDINGS BEARING SO OLD A DATE ARE EXTREMELY RARE. 


416. MANUSCRIPT. [Dati (GrecorI0).] Trattato della 
sfera, degli elementi, e del globo terrestre; Poemetto in ottava 
rima, Mol.1r.: | Libro primo| Al padre al figlo (sic) allo spirito 
sancto | per ogni secol sia gloria et honore |... . ends at the 
v. of the same leaf. Folio 2 r.: Libro secondo della spera, 
ends at the v. of leaf 12. Folio 13 r.: Libro tertio della spera, 
ends at the v. of leaf 18. Fol. 19 r.: Libro quarto della spera, 
ends at the v. of leaf 24... . et finisce qui | Lasia maggior al 
fiume tanay. Deo gratias. Florentine manuscript on vellum, 
ornamented with 39 finely painted mimatures representing 
the coasts of Asia Minor, Africa, planets, hours, etc., these last 
beng depicted by charnung figures of men and women. Ato, 
vellum, gilt edges. End of the X Vth Century 

* Humanistic character. 24 unnumbered leaves. Magnificent 
manuscript, ornamented with miniatures and maps, cosmo- 
graphical and geographical, excellently executed in gold and 
colors. The miniatures represent the Heavens, the Elements, 
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Apollo, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, the 
movements of the Sun, the Eclipse of the Moon, the Zones, the 
Zodiac, the seven spheres of the planets, the horizon, the choleric 
and sanguine man, the phlegmatic and melancholic man, the 
winds, the world, Noah’s Ark on the Ararat, and surrounding 
cities, the Tower of Babel (evidently a view in Florence itself), 
the Straits of Gibraltar (coasts of Spain and Morocco), and 
the shores of the Mediterranean as far as the river Tanais. The 
names of the towns and seaports are in Italian, and not in 
Portuguese, which does not accord with the opinion of certain 
learned men who assert that the Italians took from the Portu- 
guese (even to the names) all their knowledge of the western 
coasts of Africa, In this poem, which stops at Sebastopol and 
the Don, are to be found several names of countries which serve 
to render intelligible the geography of the ancient Italian poems 
of chivalry. This work, written probably towards the end of 
the 14th century, offers a peculiar interest on account of the 
mention of the Log-Line, the Hour-Glass and the Mariner’s 
Compass, and their application (although imperfect) to the 
determination of the longitude at sea. In this manuscript the 
poem is divided into four books, whilst in the ancient edition 
there is no division whatever. 


ILLUMINATED ARMENIAN MS. OF THE GOSPELS IN SILVER 
BINDING. 

417. MANUSCRIPT. EvancetiA QuaTuor ARMENICE (The 
Four Gospels in Armenian). MS. of the end of the XVth or 
beginning of the XVIth century, written on 256 leaves of na- 
tive glazed paper; the first 10 leaves containing the calendar 
tables of the festivities, etc., surrounded by ornamental and 

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architectomcal borders wlluminated in gold and colors; AND 
WITH FOUR FULL-PAGE MINIATURES, ONE AT THE BEGINNING OF | 
EACH GOSPEL, REPRESENTING THE FOUR EVANGELISTS WITH 
THEIR SYMBOLS, PAINTED ON GOLD GROUND; THE TITLES OF THE 
GOSPELS BEING WRITTEN IN GOLD LETTERS, AND THEIR BEGINNING 
IN ORNAMENTAL CAPITALS ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS. 
Moreover the MS. 1s ornamented with hundreds of small il- 
luminated wutials, formed of birds, interlaced flowers and 
leaves, etc., and with numerous pretty ornaments painted on 
the margins. Small thick 4to, in a native morocco XVIIth 
century binding, BOTH SIDES COVERED WITH CHASED SILVER 
PLATES, THE WORK OF AN ARMENIAN ARTIST OF ABOUT THE SAME 
PERIOD: THE ONE ON THE UPPER COVER REPRESENTING THE AS- 
SUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN IN PRESENCE OF THE TWELVE APOS- 
TLES, THE SCENE SURMOUNTED BY THE ETERNAL FATHER 
SITTING ON CHAIR FORMED BY THE SYMBOLS OF THE FOUR 
EVANGELISTS, AND SURROUNDED BY RAYS OF GLORY AND ANGELS; 
THE PLATE ON THE LOWER COVER REPRESENTING THE VIRGIN SUP- 
PORTED BY FOUR ANGELS AND CROWNED BY THE Houy TRINITY. 

XVth-XVIth Century 


* Armenian MSS. of the Gospels so profusely illuminated as 
the above are very rare, especially when belonging to such an an- 
cient period; and they become still rarer and more precious 
when ornamented with gold or silver chased bindings of Ar- 
menian workmanship. 


[SEE REPRODUCTION OF BINDING. | 


418. MANUSCRIPT. Spanish DocUMENT ON VELLUM by 
which Francis de Villa Longa, procurator and representant 
of the city of Maiorea, sells in the name of the said city a piece 
of Land, with all its privileges and pertinences. A VERY LARGE 
SHEET. Done in Barcelona, January 11, 1558. 


419. MANUSCRIPT. Carta Executoria de Hydalguya for 
Don Garcia de Salcedo. Spanish Manuscript finely written in 
Spanish Gothic character on 99 leaves of vellum; the first 
page embellished with a beautiful coat-of-arms of the Salcedo 
Family, surrounded by leaves and mottoes and finely painted 
im various colors, and with 29 large ornamental and floreated 
initials delicately painted in different colors on gold ground, 
representing nearly half the alphabet, the last mitral larger 
than the others, having in the centre a mmature portrait, 
probably of a member of the Salcedo Family. Folio, con- 
temporary red velvet, doublé with the same colored velvet, 
gilt edges. Granada, 1621 

“ A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE SPANISH ART OF WRITING AND 
ILLUMINATING IN THE 17TH CENTURY. 


138 


420. MANUSCRIPTS (COPTIC). Homelies and Prayers 
by St. Ephrem. Coptic manuscript on paper of the XVIIth 
century. 80 leaves neatly written in black and red. On the 
last two leaves are painted two curious figures, evidently repre- 
senting the Virgin, and St. Ephrem in prayer. 8vo, original 
morocco binding, with blind toolings. XVIIth Century 


421. MANUSCRIPT. Spanish GeNnrEALoGy and Heraldry. 
Description of the Genealogy and coats-of-arms of the noble 
Spanish Families Marin, Duarez, Ximena and Santa Cruz. 
Spamsh manuscript on paper of the end of the XVIIIth cen- 
tury. 24 leaves. The first page embellished with an archi- 
tectural drawing in sepia, within which in capital gold letters 
as the beginning of the document, and with 5 fine coats-of-arms 
illuminated in gold and colors. Folio, boards, covered with 
contemporary red damask. XVIII Century 


* An interesting manuscript. 


422.-MANUSCRIPT. SpanisH PRIVILEGES given by Charles 
Ii, King of Spain, to Don Joaquin Antonio Ballestero y 
Monge of the city of Rueda and to his son Francisco Paula, 
confirming their nobility. MS. on paper. 155 leaves finely writ- 
ten. On the first leaf, which 1s in vellum, are the arms of the 
Ballestero Family ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND cCoLors, and the 
beginning of the privileges is surmounted by a sepia portrait 
of King Charles III. CoNTEMPORARY SPANISH BINDING in 
light brown calf divided in compartments finely gilt and 
tooled, gilt back, gilt gauffered edges, WITH PAINTED FLOWERS, 
AND CLASPS. IN FINE CONDITION. Valladolid, 1778 
* AN UNUSUAL SPECIMEN OF SPANISH BINDING OF THE PERIOD. 


433. MANUSCRIPT (GERMAN). Bluhendes Lilien-Feld 
den Gottliebenden Erbauer. German manuscript of Prayers 
neatly written in well-formed and calligraphical Gothic char- 
acter on 180 pp., each page surrounded by an engraved border, 
and several of the pages ornamented with pen-and-ink designs 
of flowers, birds, religious emblems, ornamental letters, etc. 
S8vo, contemporary German binding in red levant morocco, 
with large ornamental gilt borders on the sides, gilt back, gilt 
edges, gilt end papers. XVIIIth Century 


* A pretty manuscript in the most perfect condition. 


424. MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE. IL’Héptaméron 
des Nouvelles de trés haute et trés illustre Princesse Mar- 
guerite d’Angouléme reine de Navarre, publié sur les man- 
uscripts, par les soins et avec les notes de MM. Le Roux de 
Liney et Anatole de Montaiglon. Wuth the fine engravings 
after Freudenberg from the famous edition of Berne, 1750-8 1, 
and numerous pretty vignettes etched by Champollion. 4 vols. 

8vo, three-quarter blue levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut. 
* A very limited edition. CHOICE SET. Paris, 1880 


139 


425. MARKHAM (GERVASE). Cavelarice; or, the 
English Horseman, contayning all the Arte of Horseman- 
ship, as much as is necessary for any man to understand, 
whether he be a Horse-Breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, 
horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, 
Coachman, Smith, or Sadler, together with the Discovery of 
the Subtil trade or mystery of horse-coursers, & an expla- 
nation of the excellency of horses understanding, or HOW 
TO TEACH THEM TO DOE TRICKES LIKE BANKES HIS CUR- 
TALL, and that horses may be maid to drawe drie-foot like 
a Hound, secrets before unpublished and now carefully set 
down for the profit of this whole nation. ngraved title 
and woodcuts. 4to, old blue morocco. Lond. 1607 


* First EDITION. Pages 9-10 of the fourth book, slightly 
damaged, otherwise good copy of this VERY RARE VOLUME. 


426. MARYLAND. 1762. Manuscript: The Answers 
of HORATIO SHARPE, Lieutenant-Governor, to the Queries 
sent by the Lords of Trade and Plantations. 15 pp. folio, 
followed by 8 blank pages, bound in boards with roan back, 
lettered ‘‘ MS. REPORT ON MARYLAND (ca. 1770).’’ The 
paper is partly watermarked ‘‘G. R.’’ and partly with a 
monogram ‘‘ J. W. J.”’ 


* A very neatly written manuscript, divided into 18 clauses, 
covering the Boundary, Charter, Inhabitants and Resources of 
Maryland during the early Colonial Period; much of which 
naturally relates to the military provisions of the Province, the 
situation of forts, and the number of fighting men and Indians: 

“There are about 120 Indians in the populous part of the 
province—and they are very orderly. The Inhabitants carry 
on no trade with any other Indians, nor are there any other 
near us. Since the reduction of Fort du Quesne there have been 
no French in the neighborhood,” 


UNCUT. WITH THE HALF-TITLE. 


427. MATHER (INCREASE). A Brief History of the 
War with the Indians in New-England. From June 24, 1675 
(when the first Englishman was Murdered by the Indians), 
to August 12, 1676, when Philip, alias Metacomet, the 
principal Author and Beginner of the War, was slain. 
Small 4to, dark blue levant morocco, tooled in a Grolier- 
esque design, silk fly-leaves, ENTIRELY UNCUT. Lond.: 
Printed for Richard Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown, in 
St. Paul’s Church-Yard, according to the original copy 
printed in New-England, 1676. : 

* The last signature, two leaves, were printed on smaller paper 
or have been supplied from a smaller copy, the lower and inner 
margins being extended, but the copy is of great size (834 
inches by 61% inches), and is one of the finest known. 

PERFECT, WITH THE VERY RARE HALF-TITLE (WHICH PROBA- 
BLY ORIGINALLY SERVED AS A COVER AND SO WAS EASILY LOST). 
‘‘THE WARS OF NEW ENGLAND,” THE WORD ‘‘ WARS”’ BEING IN 
BIG BLACK CAPITALS AN INCH HIGH. 

THIS IS PROBARLY INCREASE MATHER’S MOST FAMOUS WORK. 


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EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS AND LETTERS. 


423. MEN AND MEASURES of Half a Century. Sketches 
and Comments. By HuGH MCCULLOCH. 8vo, new full 
crimson crushed levant, gold tooled back, gilt top, uncut, 


by WALTERS. N. Y. 1900 
*UNIQUE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED Copy, The author was Secretary 
of the Treasury under LINCOLN, Johnson and Arthur, and the vol- 
ume contains much very interesting matter on the Lincoln assassi- 
nation, and has been very appropriately illustrated by the inser- 
tion of twenty-six choice portraits of McCulloch, Evarts, Hend- 
ricks, Cass, Boutwell, Beecher, Lincoln and others, and fourteen 
interesting autographs, Samuel F. Miller to President Grant, Jus- 
tice J. P. Bradley, Frelinghuysen, Vice-President Wilson, Secre: 
tary B. H. Bristow, Wm. Dennison, Lincoln’s Postmaster-Gen- 
eral; N. H. Swayne, of the Supreme Court; O. P. Morton and other 
Cabinet Ministers. IN ALL FORTY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATIONS. 


LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM MEREDITH TO CHARLES 
KENT INSERTED. 


429. MEREDITH (GEORGE). The Shaving of Shagpat. 
An Arabian Entertainment. With autograph letter dated 
April 4th, 1855, to the author’s friend, Charles Kent, in- 
serted. 8vo, bound by SANGORSKI and SUTCLIFFE IN FULL 
CRUSHED AND POLISHED CRIMSON LEVANT, BEAUTIFULLY 
GOLD-TOOLED WITH LIGHTLY LINED PANELS ON SIDES, SIDE 
CORNERS WITH FINE FLOWER-AND-LEAF DESIGN IN GOLD 
AND WHITE INLAY, BACK PANELED BETWEEN RAISED BANDS, 
INSIDE BORDERS GOLD LINED, TOP GILT, OTHER EDGES UN- 
CUT; ORIGINAL CLOTH COVERS BOUND IN; THE WHOLE PRO- 
TECTED BY A STIFF FLEECE-LINED FOLDING CASE OF CRIMSON 


CLOTH. Lond. 1856 

* FIRST ISSUE OF THE First EDITION. There were two issues 

of this First Edition, of which the first is identified by the goid 
lettering on the side of the red cloth covers. 

Inserted is a most interesting letter, neatly inlaid to size, 337 
words in length, to his friend Charles Kent of the Sun. The 
letter is beautifully written in Meredith’s characteristically 
nervous hand, and after the introductory lines inquiring after 
Kent’s illness, there occur, among others, the following inter- 
esting passages: 

‘By the way, if you want amusement, I recommend you 
Kingsley's last novel, ‘Westward Hol!’ a story of Elizabeth's & 
the Old Voyagers’ Time—admirably written, worthy of Kings- 
ley. Of course, there’s not much repose in the book. ..I like in 
it the fine manly English tone—absence of all sentimentality.” 

‘‘As for meI have just finished a book which I have sold to 
Chapman & Hall. An ‘Arabian Entertainment’ ”...etc., etc., 
etc. (with reference to ‘‘ The Shaving of Shagpat ”). 

The rarity of the First Issue, the great interest attached toa 
letter of such length from the period of Meredith’s youth—for 
‘Shaving of Shagpat,” his first prose book, was not then pub- 
lished—and the beautiful binding, together render this item of 
the highest possible interest. 


THE CONSTABLE MEREDITH. 


430. MEREDITH (GEORGE). The Works of George 
Meredith. 32 vols. 8vo, cloth, gilt tops, uncut. Lond. 1898 
* FINE copy. Constable’s beautiful collected edition, of which 

only a limited number were issued and now out of print and 


VERY SCARCE. 
141 


THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MILTON. 
An Important Collection, being all First Editions. 


A MILTON ITEM OF GREAT RARITY. 


431. MILTON (JOHN). Animadversions upon the Re- 
monstrants Defence against Smectymnvvs. THE EXCES- 
SIVELY RARE FIRST EDN. Small 4to, full crushed levant 
morocco, extra, gilt edges on the rough, by RIVIERE. 

Lond.: Printed for Thomas Underhill, 1641 


* EVIDENTLY THE FIRST COPY OF THIS RARE MILTON FIRST 
EDITION TO BE OFFERED BY AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY, no Copy 
of it having been in the fine collections of Miltoniana of Mr. 
Lefferts, or Mr. Poor, 


A VERY RARE FIRST EDITION BY MILTON. 


432. MILTON (JOHN). Colasterion, A Reply to a Name- 
less Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 
wherein the trivial Author of that Answer is discover’d, 
the licencer conferr’d with, and the Opinion which they 
traduce defended by the former Author, J. M. THE EX- 
TREMELY RARE FIRST EDN. Small 4to, full brown crushed 
levant morocco, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 

[Lond.:] Printed in the Year, 1645 


* A VERY FINE copy of the work which was mainly re- 
sponsible for the forming of the society called Miltonists, or 
persons who thought with Milton regarding divorce. 


AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF MILTON, 


433. MILTON (JOHN). Tetrachordon. Expositions 
upon the foure chief places in Seripture, which treat of 
Mariage, or nullities in Mariage. On Gen. I, 27, 28, 
compar’d and explain’d by Gen. II, 18, 23, 24. Deut. xxiv, 
1, 2, Matth. 5, 31, 32, with Matth. xix from the 3d v. to I 
Cor., 7, from the 10th to the 1lth. Wherein THE DOCTRINE 
AND. DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE, as was lately publish’d, is 
confirm’d by explanation of Scripture, by testimony of 
ancient Fathers, of civill lawes in the Primitive Church, 
of famousest Reformed Divines. And lastly, by an in- 
tended Act of the Parliament, and Chureh of England in 
the last yeare of Edward the Sixth. By the former author, 
J. M. Lond.: Printed in the yeare 1645 


* THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT 
woRK. With the exception of the Lefferts’ copy, no copy 
seems to have been offered at public auction in this country. 

Bound by Riviere in full brown crushed levant morocco, 
extra tooled, gilt edges. 


A VERY RARE FIRST EDITION BY MILTON. 


434. MILTON (JOHN). EIKONOKAASTHS in answer 
to a Book entitl’d EIKQN BASIAIKH, the Portraiture of his 
Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings, the author, 
I. M. Published by authority. THE VERY RARE FIRST 


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[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT GOSPELS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 
IN ARMENIAN, WITH SILVER BINDING. SEE No. 417.] 


EDN. Sniall 4to. HANDSOMELY BOUND BY RIVIERE, in 
full blue crushed levant morocco, extra, gilt edgos. Lond. : 
Printed by Matthew Simmons, next dore to the golded 
Lyon in Aldersgate Street, 1649. 
_ FINE Copy. On page II there is a reference to Shakespeare, 
including a quotation trom his Richard III, which is important 


as showing both the connection of the King and Milton with 
works of the great poet. 


435. MILTON (JOHN). The Tenure of Kings and Mag- 
istrates: proving, that it is Lawfull, and hath been held so 
through all ages, for any who have the Power, to call to ac- 
count a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, 
to depose, and put him to Death; if the ordinary magis- 
trate have neglected, or deny’d to do it, and that they who 
of late, so much blame deposing, are the men that did it 
themselves. 4to, full levant morocco extra, by RIVIERE. 

London.: Matthew Simmons, 1649 
* THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED PAMPHLET. 
Contemporary manuscript notes on margins, some passages 


underlined, anda wormhole through the blank fore margin, 
otherwise a fine copy. 


FIRST EDITION OF ‘‘ PARADISE LOST.” 


436. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten 
Books. The Author John Milton. Small 4to, old black 
morocco. fe portrait by Faithorne (inserted). Lond. : 
Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by T. Helder at 
the Angel in Little Brittain. 1669. 

* FIRST EDITION, WITH THE FIFTH TITLE-PAGE (LOWNDES: 
SEVENTH TITLE) AND A LARGE COPY WITH SOME LEAVES UN- 
TRIMMED AT BOTTOM. SMALL MEND IN LOWER MARGIN OF Hho. 


THE WORD ‘‘ ANGEL”’ IN THE IMPRINT IS IN ROMAN LETTERS. IN 
THE NEXT ISSUE ‘‘ ANGEL’ WAS CHANGED TO ITALICS. 


437. MINIATURES. 12 finely executed miniatures ON 
VELLUM representing the occupations of the months, sur- 
rounded by pretty ornamental borders, by a German artist 
of the 17th century. Bound in one volume oblong 16mo, 
full green crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt.tooled back and 
inside borders, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. XVIIth century 


yee PRETTY AND INTERESTING COLLECTION. 


THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF BOTH PARTS. 


438. MIRROUR (THE) for Magistrates,wherein may bee 
seene, by Examples passed in this Realme, with how 
greeuous plagues vices are punished in great Princes and 
magistrates, and how fraile and unstable wordly prosperity 
is found, where Fortune seemeth most highly to favour; 


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newly imprinted, and with the addition of divers Tragedies 
enlarged. BLACK LETTER Small 4to, full levant morocco 
extra, gilt panelled sides, by W. PRATT. 

Lond.: Henry Marsh, 1587 


* THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE TWO PARTS by Baldwin 
and Higgins incorporated into one volume, and augmented by 
the addition of twenty-nine legends, making in all seventy- 
four, including Lord Buckhurst’s ‘‘ Induction.” This workis a 
most interesting storehouse of {tragical legends in verse, from 
which poets and dramatists have drawn largely, including 
SHAKESPEARE, who is presumed to be indebted to the piece 
‘‘ How Queen Cordela, in despair, slew herself,” in his tragedy 
of ‘‘ King-Lear.” Among the ninety poetical narratives given 
in this volume are the following, which are undoubtedly of 
great interest to the Shakespearean collector: ‘‘ The Life and 
Death of Julius Ceesar’’; ‘‘How Shore’s wife, Edward the 
Fourth’s Concubine, was punished ’’; ‘‘The Death of Edward 
the Fourth ”’; ‘‘Murder of the Duke of Clarence”; ‘‘ The Un- 
fortunate Life and Death of King John’; “The Life and 
Death of Lord Cromwell”; ‘‘ The Death of Henry VI.,” etc. 


MISSAL HANDSOMELY BOUND. 


439. MISSALE ROMANUM, ex decreto Sacrosanti Con- 
cilii Tridentini Restitutum. Wiuth 6 fine full-page copper 
engravings. Folio, contemporary Portuguese binding in 
full red straight-grained morocco, gilt tooled large borders 
on the sides formed of interlaced sprays of flowers and 
leaves, and centre octagonal panels, within which is a fes- 
toon of roses, the centre filled with three bouquets, and 
stars, richly gilt back, gilt gauffred edges, with clasps. 

Olisipone (Lisboa), 1808 
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GUESE BINDING of the beginning of the 19th.century. 


440. MOLIERE. The Dramatic Works of Moliére. Transl. 
by Henry Van Laun, with a Prefatory Memoir, Introduc- 
tory Notices and Notes. Wath numerous fine etchings on 
India paper by Lalauze. 6 vols. royal 8vo, half green mo- 
rocco, gilt tops. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1875-76 


* Fine copy of the best edition on LARGE PAPER. Only a 
small number were printed. The publisher’s failure caused all 
his stock to be dispersed. 


THE RARE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF MONARDES. 


441. MONARDES (DR. N.). JOYFVLL NEWES OUT OF 
THE NEW FOUND WORLD, where in are declared the rare 
and singular vertues of diuers and sundrie Herbs, Trees, 
Oyles, Plants, & Stones, with their applications, as well to 
the use of Phisicke as Chirurgery: which being wel (szc) 
applied, bring such present remedy for all diseases as may 
seeme altogether incredible: notwithstanding by practize 
found out, to be true. Also the portraiture of the sayde 
Herbes, very aptly described: Englished by Iohn Framp- 
ton Merchant. Newly corrected as by conference with the 
olde copies may appeare. Wherevnto are added three 
other bookes treating of the Bezaar stone, the herbe 


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Escuergonera, the properties of yron and steele, in medi- 
cine and the benefite of snowe. Imprinted at London, in 
Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Quenes Aries, by 
William Norton, 1580. Buack LETTER. With woodcuts 
of plants, including that of TOBACCO. Small 4to, full brown 
levant morocco extra, the sides finely tooled and gilt to a 
Grolieresque pattern, gilt tooled back and inside borders, 


gilt edges. Lond. 1580 

* VERY RARE AND EXTREMELY RARE WITH THE SECOND LETTER- 
PRESS TITLE-PAGE AFTER LEAF 110, AS IN THE ABOVE COPY, 
WHICH IS WANTING IN NEARLY ALL COPIES. 

Second edition of the English translation, and First EDITION 
WITH THF ADDITIONAL TREATISE on the ‘‘ Bezaar stone, the 
herbe Escuerconera, the properties of yron and steele in med- 
icine and the benefite of the snowe.”’ 

The author was one of the most distinguished Spanish phy- 
sicians of his time. The work opens with a NOTICE OF COLUM- 
BUS’ DISCOVERY, and among other curious things CONTAINS A 
LONG ARTICLE ON TOBACCO, which occupies 24 pages (leaves 33- 
45), this making MONARDES ONE OF THE EARLIEST WRITERS ON 
THAT SUBJECT. No copy in the Church Collection. A few 
blank corners very skillfully supplied and two or three headings 
slightly shaved, otherwise good and sound copy, with all the 
side notes intact. 


442. MONTESQUIEU (CHARLES DE SECONDAT DE). 
Le Temple de Gnide (Céphise et l?Amour, et Arsace et 
Isménie). Hrontispiece with medallion portrait of Montes- 
quieu, and 9 very fine plates engraved by Le Mire after 
EISEN, and 2 plates by Le Mire and Thomas after LE BAR- 
BIER. Royal 8vo, old French straight-grained red morocco 
gilt, gilt back and inside borders, watered silk linings, gilt 
edges, by BRADEL. Paris: Didot Jeune, An III [1794] 


* PRINTED ON VELLUM PAPER. Probably the most beautiful 
French illustrated book of the 18th Century; in the plates 
artist and engraver appear at their best. EXTREMELY RARE IN 
OLD MOROCCO, AS THE ABOVE, especially in fine condition. 


443. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). La Vie des Boule- 
vardes, Madeleine, Bastille. 200 charming illusts. in colors 
by Pierre Vidal. Royal 8vo, finely bound by KAUFFMANN 
in three-quarter crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt floral 
decoration on back, gilt top, uncut, original pictorial 
wrappers bound in. Paris: Quantin, 1896 

* Only 700 copies issued, this being No. 55. 


444, MOORE (GEORGE). Memoirs of My Dead Life. 


FIRST EDN. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1906 
* The very scarce suppressed edition, the objectionable por- 
tions being removed, despite the opposition of the author. 


FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF MORE’S EPIGRAMS., 


445. MORE (THOMAS). Epigrammata clarissimi dis- 
sertissimique viri Thome Mori Britanni ad emendatum 
exemplar ipsius autoris excusa. Title within a very fine 
historiated border and large initials with the figure of 
Aischylus engraved on wood after HOLBEIN’S DESIGNS, and 


145 


small woodcut initials. Basilese, apud Joannem Frobenium, 
1520.—PICTORII sacra et satyrica epigrammata. Michaelis 
Verini Florentini quedam B. Bardani epigrammata, ete. 
Title within a charming ornamental border and 7 fine head- 
preces engraved on wood after HOLBEIN’S DESIGN. Basileze, 
apud Jo. Frobenium, 1518. In one vol. 4to, full morocco 
gilt, gilt edges. Basel: Froben, 1518-20 


* THE RARE FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Thomas More’s Epi- 
grams. In this issue there are two epigrams (pp. 75-76) re- 
lating to King James of Scotland, which differ from those 
contained in the preceding editions published together with 
the ‘‘ Utopia” in 1516 and 1518. THE BORDERS AND ORNAMENTS 
WHICH EMBELLISHES THE ABOVE TWO BOOKS WERE CERTAINLY 
DESIGNED BY HOLBEIN, AND PROBABLY ALSO ENGRAVED BY HIM, 
at least the border to More’s Epigrams, as it bears his mark 
‘‘H. H.” VERY FINE COPIES. 


A VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, IN THE 
ORIGINAL BINDING. 


446. MORE (THOMAS). A | dialoge | of comfort against | 
tribulacion, made by | Syr Thomas More | KNYGT, and set 
foorth by the | name of an Higarié, not before this | time 
imprinted. | Londini in edibus Richar-| di Totteli. | @] Cum 
Priuilegio ad imprimen- | dum solum.—[Colophon] Im- 
printed at Lon- | don in fletestrete within Temple | barre 
at the signe of the hand z | starre by Richarde Tottel | y 
xviii, day of our lord. | 1553. | Cum priuilegio ad impri- | 
mendum solum. BLACK LETTER. Title within an historiated 
woodcut border, in the manner of Holbein, representing 
Dido killing herself on account of the departure of Atneas. — 
4to, CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BINDING IN STAMPED CALF 


(upper and lower side restored). Lond. 1553 


* COLLATION: 1, title; 2-3, ‘‘ Table”; 4, a blank; A-U in 8, 
X in 4, text. 168 unnumbered leaves. 

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of Thomas More’s cele- 
brated ascetic treatise, written by him chiefly for the comfort 
of his own family when imprisoned in the Tower. He repre- 
sented it as ‘‘made by an Hungarian in Latin and translated 
out of Latin into French, and out of French into English.” 
With the exception of a few very small worm-holes a fine and | 
large copy, measuring 75g x 514g inches, while the copy of the 
British Museum (not in the original binding as the above) 
measures only 6% x5 inches. [See letter laid in from the B. M. 
regarding the size of their copy.| PROBABLY ANOTHER SO FINE 
AS THE ONE HERE OFFERED FOR SALE IS NOT IN EXISTENCE. 
No COPY OF THIS RARE BOOK HAS EVER APPEARED AT PUBLIC 
AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY, AND BUT FEW (2 or 3) HAVE BEEN 
SOLD IN ENGLAND. In LIVINGSTON’S ‘‘ AUCTION PRICES OF 
Books”’ (which covers the English sales as well as the Ameri- 
can) THERE IS THE RECORD OF ONLY ONE COPY, AND THAT WENT 
INTO THE BRITISH MUSEUM (as above mentioned). Mr. Robert 
Hoe’s superb collection of early English Literature does not 
contain a copy, nor did Mr. Lefferts, Mr. McKee or any other 
of the celebrated collectors have it. 


[See Reproduction. ] 
146 


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phage of an Hagarié not before 
ime imprinted 


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donfoinm, 


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First EDITION. 


[Morz. D1aLoGuE OF COMFORT AGAINST T'RIBULACION. 
SEE No. 446. ] 


447, MORRIS (WILLIAM). The Earthly Paradise. A 
Poem. FIRST EDITION OF EACH VOLUME. 4 partsin 3 vols. 
Thick post 8vo, original cloth, uncut, paper labels. 

* Very fine clean set. Scarce in this state. Lond. 1868-70 


PRESENTATION COPY. 
448. MORRIS (WILLIAM). Love is Enough; or, The 
Freeing of Pharamond: a Morality. FIRST EDN. §8vo, 
original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1873 


* Presentation copy, with inscription in Mr. Morris’s hand- 
writing, ‘‘J. Knight from William Morris.” 


449, Do. Bound in full dark blue levant extra, 
elaborately inlaid with a light shade of blue, leaves, 
branches, Tudor roses, ete., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 
the delicate inlaid work of peacock blue background with 
the tracery of vine and rose in each corner, the combining 
of the green in the rose leaf with gold and the tint of red, 
the intricate and graceful central design is most pleasing. 
Though the whole design is of that peculiar pattern called 
*‘conventional,”’ it has decided originality and is made 
elaborate by the delicately lavish use of gold. 


-_ HANDSOME SET OF FIRST EDITION. 

450. MOTLEY (JOHN L.). THE WORKS oF. Con- 
taining THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 
2 vols.; THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 3 vols.; THE 
HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS, 4 vols. Jllust. 
Together 9 vols. 8vo, newly and handsomely bound by 
RIVIERE in half green levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut. 

Lond.: Murray, 1856-74 


* a very handsome set of first and best Large Type Library 
Editions. 


A FINE COPY OF A RARE VOLUME. 


451. MUNDAY (ANTHONY). The Famous History of 
the Noble and Valiant Prince Palmerin of England, de- 
claring his Birth and Prince Florian du Desart, his Brother, 
in the Forrest of Great Britain. The Course of their Lives 
afterwards in pursuing Knightly Adventures, and doing in- 
comparable Deeds of Chivalry; wherein Gentlemen may 
find choyce of sweet inventions, and Gentlewomen bee 
satisfyed in Courtly Expectations. Translated out of French 
by A. M., one of the Messengers of Her Majesties Chamber. 
Two parts in 1 volume. Small 4to, MOST BEAUTIFULLY 
BOUND BY RIVIERE AND SON in full blue crushed levant 
morocco, centre oval inlaid with purple levant, inside 
border of small scrolls, lettering in centre, the rest of the 
sides covered with scrolls, two large ones in each corner 
inlaid in light blue levant, the whole ground powdered in 
gold. Lond.: Printed by R. I. for 8.8. to be sold by Charles. 
Tyws, at the Three Bibles on London Bridge, 1664. 

3 * AN EXCEEDINGLY HANDSOME COPY. VERY RARE. 


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452. APOLEON I. Las Casas (Count). Journal of 
the Private Life and Conversations of the Em- 

peror Napoleon at St. Helena. Wath portraits and maps. 
4 vols. 8vo, new half light ealf gilt, gilt edges, emblematic 
tooling on backs. ne set. Lond. 1824 
* Fine set of the best large type library edition, containing 

THE COLORED PLATES, COPIES OF WHICH SELDOM OCCUR FOR SALE. 


‘*T collected and recorded, day by day, all that I saw of 
Napoleon, all that I heard him say during the period of eight- 
een months in which I was constantly about his person.” 


ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED 
LIVES OF THE GREAT NAPOLEON EVER OFFERED FOR 
SALE, CONTAINING OVER ONE THOUSAND HISTORICAL 
ENGRAVINGS, TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY PORTRAITS 
(SOME IN COLOR), A LARGE NUMBER OF FINE AUTO- 
GRAPHS AND MILITARY DOCUMENTS, A PIECE OF GOLD 
BRAID AND SCARLET CLOTH CUT FROM NAPOLEON’S 
COAT, ETC. 


453. NAPOLEON I. Horne (R.H.) History of Napoleon, 
1841. 2 vols. imp. 8vo. Special Copy, inlaid throughout and 
enlarged to 6 volumes, THICK LARGE FOLIO, by the insertion of 
1,394 Portraits, Engravings, Caricatures, Documents, Auto- 
graph Letters, Drawings and Relics. Bound in FULL BLUE 
CRUSHED LEVANT PURPLE MOROCCO, EXTRA, With the Arms of 
Napoleon in gold on the sides (specially cut from an authentic 
official plate), surrounded by a gold-tooled wreath of violets, 
with specially-printed titles in red and black. 


*An account of Napoleon’s career, intelligently illustrated, 
literally from the cradle to the grave, as the illustrations com- 
mence with Napoleon’s birthplace and end with the Second 
Funeral in the Invalides which Thackeray saw and described. 
The following is a brief analysis of the contents: 

ONE THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN HISTORICAL ENGRAVINGS AND 
VIEWS ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPAL MILITARY ACTIONS AND 
OTHER EVENTS OF NAPOLEON’S LIFE, AND OF THESE NO FEWER 
THAN 233 ARE .COLOURED IMPRESSIONS. 

Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE PORTRAITS OF PERSONS INFLU- 
ENCED BY OR INFLUENCING THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON, INCLUD- 
ING 38 COLOURED MILITARY AND OTHER PRINTS. 

EIGHTEEN COLOURED CARICATURES, BY GILLRAY AND OTHERS, 
SOME BEING RARE ORIGINALS AND OTHERS REPRODUCTIONS, 
CHIEFLY DIRECTED AGAINST THE AMBITIOUS SCHEMES OF THE 
EMPEROR, AND REJOICING IN HIS DOWNFALL, 


E1gHt MAPS AND PLANS, SOME IN COLOUR. 


Also 
ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND SIGNED LETTERS by Louis 
Bonaparte, King of Holland and father of Napoleon III., to 
the Minister of Police, 1804; Lucien Bonaparte, 1804, the 
year of the Coup d’Etat in which he played the chief part; 
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1803; Marshal Ney, the 
‘¢Bravest of the Brave,’’ on military matters; Jerome Bona- 
parte, King of Wurtemburg; Marshal Grouchy (blamed by 


148 


Napoleon for the loss of Waterloo) ; Marshal Maisons, Min- 
ister of War; Marshal Suchet, from Spain in 1812, on affairs 
of State, when head of the Imperial Army of Aragon; Gen. 
Clarke, Due de Feltre, Minister of War; Gen. Dejean, Paris, 
1806;Benjamin Constant, 1824; Gen. Regnault; the Duc de 
Laval, mentioning the Duke of Wellington, George IV., Lord 
Aberdeen, Lady Conyngham, &¢.; Gen. Mina, of Spain; 

_ Count Gerard, May, 1815, during the ‘‘ Hundred Days,’’ stat- 
ing that Gen. Bourmont desires the Legion of Honour con- 
ferred upon him by Louis XIII. to be confirmed by Napoleon, 
Count Bertrand, who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena; 
Count Las Cases, who also accompanied Napoleon to St. 
Helena, and wrote the memoirs of Napoleon from his dicta- 
tion; Marshal Molitor, one of the pall-bearers at the Second 
Funeral, and written in the same year, 1840; the Duc de 
Choiseul; Gen. Menou, 1802, to the Minister of Marine; 
Marshal Massena, Milan, 1800, to the Paymaster General; 
Marshal Serrurier, 1796, to the Chief of the Army of Italy, 
with salt; Chiappe, French Envoy from the Assembly with 
the Army of Italy, 1795; Denon, Berlin, 1807; Marshal Mar- 
mont, Due de Ragusa; Gen. Victor, Duc de Bellunc; Talley- 
rand, Berne, 1800; Marshal Macdonald, 1799, when Chief of 
Army of Naples, to Gen. Gauthier; Marshal Mortier, to the 
Minister of War, Paris, 1801; Capt. Diemar, a French emigre 
in London, mentioning Dumouriez, Bournonville, &c.; Count 
Daru, Intendant General of the French army; Sir Sidney 
Smith, the hero of Acre, in French, with seal; Capt. Wright, 
to Sir Sidney Smith, Rosetta, 1801, respecting the embarkation 
of the Frentch troops in Egypt, mentioning Napoleon, and 
Kleber. Wright was afterwards imprisoned in Paris by 
Napoleon, and was supposed to be murdered by his orders; 
Earl Grey, from Downing Street, to the Lord Mayor of 
London, 1831; Duke of Cambridge (son of George III), 1812; 
Sir George Paget, son of Lord Uxbridge, a curious letter 
respecting the bones of his father’s leg, dug up from the 
Field of Waterloo and exhibited; the Duke of Wellington; 
Colonel Doyle, Sir Harry Burrard, Sir David Baird, and 
General Whitelock, all Peninsular veterans; Thomas Camp- 
bell, Poet, author of ‘‘The Burial of Sir John Moore,’’ ad- 
dressed to Harriet Martineau, respecting the Emperor of 
Russia; and an official letter to the Minister of Finance, with 
a long note by Marshal Kellermann. 


The Autographs include those of Napoleon III, when Presi- 
dent of the French Republic; the Duke of York; Lord Mul- 
grave; Marshal Davoust; Lord Lynedoch; Lord Hill; J .C. 
Hobhouse, who wrote ‘‘The Last Reign of Napoleon’’ Signature 
and 3 lines of MS by Hortense Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon 
TIT; six lines in German by the Empress Marie Louise, dated 
1822, the year after the death of Napoleon; &e. : 

The Military and other Documents include the following:—a 
Document signed by Napoleon, nine days before Waterloo; an 
*¢ Arrete,’’? 1795; an Appointment to the Legion of Mirabeau, 
Nov. 26, 1793, signed by Charles X as Regent of France for 
Louis XVII, then a prisoner in the Temple, countersigned by 
the Due de Broglie; Documents signed by Berthier, in Poland, 
1807; Gen. Lebrun, 1792; Gen. Moncey, Milan, 1799; Marshal 
Beresford; Cardinal Fesch (unele of Napoleon); Marshal Segur, 
1787; Marshal Victor; and Count Bourmont. 


Also 
A PASSPORT SIGNED BY LOUIS JOSEPH DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE 


CoNDE, 1796, WITH THE MOURNING SEAL OF THE ROYAL ARMS 
OF FRANCE IN BLACK WAX. 


149 


TWO WATER-COLOUR AND SEPIA DRAWINGS. 

A SHEET OF MUSIC, of ‘‘ NAPOLEON’S GRAND IMPERIAL MARCH. ’? 

A PLAYBILL OF THE PANORAMA OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, 
1827. 

A PIECE OF THE WALL-PAPER FROM NAPOLEON’S DRAWING-ROOM 
AT St. HELENA. 

A PIECE OF GOLD BRAID AND SCARLET CLOTH CUT FROM NAPOLEON’S 
coaT AT St. HELENA (at Vol. 6, page 461). 


The work is, in short, of the most engrossing interest as illus- 
trating the life of one of the world’s greatest men. 


ONLY TEN SETS WERE ISSUED. 


454. NAPOLEON. The Memoirs of Napoleon, by Louis 
A. F. de Bourrienne, 4 vols.; Secret Memoirs of Madame 
Junot (Duchesse D’Abrantes), 6 vols ; The Life of Napo- 
leon, by William Hazlitt, 6 vols. Beautifully illustrated 
with colored fronts., after paintings by famous artists and 
portraits and scenes on Japan paper; EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED — 
by the insertion of 32 fine portraits, facsimiles, views. etc. 
Together 16 vols. 8vo, FULL RED CRUSHED LEVANT MO- 
ROCCO: SIDES WITH GILT ORNAMENTS IN THE CORNERS AND 
INLAID IN THE CENTRE WITH A GREEN LEVANT PANEL UPON | 
WHICH IS A GILT MEDALION PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON; BACKS 
GILT AND INLAID WITH A FLEUR-DE-LIS; GILT LINED INSIDE 
BORDER WITH A GREEN INLAY AT EACH CORNER; GREEN 
SILK LINING AND END PAPERS; GILT TOPS, UNCUT. 

Lond.: The Napoleon Society, n. d. 
re mes Talleyrand Edition, limited to ten sets of which this 
IS INO. «. : 


A VERY: RARE EXAMPLE OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE. 


455. NEWTON (THOMAS). Seneca, his Ten Tragedies. 
Translated into English. THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST 
EDN. Title within a woodcut border (small portion of top 
of title very slightly shaved, and one or two blank portions 
of leaves mended, otherwise A FINE COPY), small 4to, 
bound in full purple morocco, gilt edges. Imprinted at 
London, in Fleet-Street, neere unto Sainte Dunstan’s 
Church, by Thomas Marsh, 1581. 


*The above volume (edited by Newton, who has translated the 
tragedy ‘‘ Thebais ”’) contains the following: 

(1) Hercules Furens, (2) Thyestes, (6) Troas, all translated by 
Jasper Heywood, (5) Gidipus, translated by Alex. Neville, (4) Hip- 
polytus, (7) Medea, (8) Agamemnon, (10) Hercules, all translated 
by John Studley, (9) Octavia, translated by T. Nuce, and (8) The- 
bais, translated by Thomas Newton. 

First issue in collected form. It is said that the book was cer- 
tainly known to Shakespeare. Newton was a famous Latin scholar, 
and was the first Englishman who wrote Latin elegiacs with classi- 
cal clearness. 


THE FIRST EDITION OF NORTH’S PLUTARCH. 


456. NORTH (THOMAS). The Lives of the Noble Gre- 
cians and Romanes compared together by that learned 
Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke, of Chaeronea. 


150 


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N ec quicg nifi pondus inets:congeftagp ¢ em. 
N on bene iunctarum difcordia femifarerum. - 
a ullus adhuc mundo prebebat fuming! | 
ua. crefcendo reparabatcomua ee 
i pene inaeretellus 


: M: ara terrarum. ciaeees -amphitnite: s 
Hluszillic & pontus & a 


sata innabiis undas 


E Seen, fill 
oi uz poltg alae es exemit aceruo:, 
D iffocata loa concordi pace liganit. 
Leg nuexi uis & fine pondere cali * 
EB mucuit: fummag: locum fibi legit in arces 
P. roxiraus eft aerllisleuitate:locog. 
D enfiog his gellus:elem tage pee ‘traxit: . 
e t “prétta eff grauitate drcunfluus humo: 
V luma pofledit:foliduma, coercuit otbem.* 
S&S icubi difpofitam quifquis fuit ile deorum 
C ongeriem fecuit:fetamq in membra redegits 
P. rincipio terram:nenon equalis abomni- * 
lomeranitin orbis . 


[Ovipr. Works. THIRD DatTep EpiTIonN. VENICE, 1474. 
SEE No. 458. ] 


Trans. out of the Greeke into French by James Amyot, 
Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of the King’s 
Privy Council, and Great Amner of France, and out of 
French in English by THOMAS NORTH. THE EXCESSIVELY 
RARE FIRST EDN. Thick small folio, full morocco, gilt 
edges. Imprinted at London, by Thomas Vautroullier, 
dwelling in Blacke Friars, by Ludgate, 1579. 


* EVIDENTLY THE FIRST COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT VOLUME TC 

BE OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. Dr, Whar 

ton, in his ‘‘History of English Poetry,” justly calls it 

‘‘ SHAKESPEARE’S STOREHOUSE OF LEARNING,” and it is a well- 

known fact that no less than FIVE PIECES OF THE CELEBRATED 

_ DRAMATIST Can BETRACED TO IT, namely, ‘‘ Midsummer Night’s 

Dream,” ‘‘ Julius Cesar,” ‘‘ Coriolanus,” ‘‘ Antony and Cleo- 
patra” and ‘‘ Pericles.” 


THE FAMOUS “ORDINANCE OF 1787.” 
457. ay ee NANCE “i toes Bey i 


An Ordinance for the Government of the 
Territory of the United States, 
North-West of the River Ohio. 


2 pages, folio, with the original blank fly-leaf. SIGNED IN 
AUTOGRAPH OF CHARLES THOMSON. Perk are | 


* The necessity of some laws for the government of the great 
territory to the west of the Alleghanies had early been realized 
by the Old Congress, after the close of the war. In 1784 Jeffer- 
son drew up a ‘‘plan for the temporary government of the 
western territory,’ which was passed by Congress. That ordi- 
nance, however, was inoperative and nothing was done under 
it. During the sessions of 1785 and 1786, the subject was con- 
sidered and reported on from time to time by various com- 
mittees. It was finally referred on July 9, 1787, to a special 
committee composed of Carrington and Richard Henry Lee of 
Virginia, Dane of Massachusetts, Kean of South Carolina, and 
Smith of New York. Two days later the Committe reported 
this great Bill of Rights since known as the Ordinance of 1787. 

The territory to which the Ordinance applied is that now in- 
cluded in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and 
Wisconsin. Regarding the historical importance of the piece 
and its interest to the Western collector, we need only quote 
the following: 


From Daniel Webster in his speech in reply to Hayne, de- 
livered in 1830: 

‘«We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; 
we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I 
doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, 
has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting char- 
acter than the Ordinance of 1787.” 


From Theodore Roosevelt in ‘‘ The Winning of the West”: 
In truth the Ordinance of 1787 was so wide-reaching in its 
effects, was drawn in accordance with so lofty a morality and 
such far seeing statesmanship, and was fraught with such weal . 
for the nation, that it will ever rank among the foremost of 
American state papers, coming in that little group which in- 
eludes the Declararation of Independence, the Constitution, 
Washington's Farewell Address, and Lincoln's Emancipation 


151 


and Second Inaugural. It marked out a definite line of orderly 
JSreedom along which the new States which were to advance. It 
laid deep the foundation for that system of widespread public 
education so characteristic to the Republic and so essential to its 
healthy growth. It provided that complete religious freedom 
and equality which we now accept as part of the order of nature, 
but which were then unknown in any tmportant European 
nation. It guaranteed the civil liberty of all citizens. It pro- 
vided for an indissoluble Union, a Union which should grow 
untu it could relentlessly crush nullification and secession; for 
the States founded wnder it were the creatures of the Nation, 
and were by the compact declared forever inseparable from it.” 


The only copy sold at auction brought $135.00 in Boston in 1900, 


WORKS OF OVID, PRINTED BY GALLUS IN 1474. 


458. OVIDIUS. OPERA. Roman character; 411 unnum- 
bered leaves, without signatures and catchwords; 43 lines to 
the page. Fol. 1 r.: PVBLII OVIDII NASONIS META | MOR- 
PHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. Jol. 14/1 v., line 80: PVBLII OVIDII 
NASONIS META | MORPHOSEOS LIBRI QVINTI | DECIMI ATQVE 
VLTIMI | FINIS. | Orba parente suo quicunq3 volumina tangis 

|... Fol. 142 r.: PVBLII OVIDII NASONIS EPISTOLA | RVM 
HEROIDVM LIBER PRIMVS. fol. 186 v.: PVBLII OVIDII 
NASONIS DE | ARTE AMANDI LIBER PRIMVS. Jol. 213 v., 
line 27: P. OVIDII NASONIS DE ARTE | AMANDI LIBRI EXPLI- 
CIVNT. fol. 214 r.: P. OVIDIL NASONIS ELEGIARVM: | 
SIVE AMORVM LIBER PRIMVS. Jol. 242 v., line 89; PVBLII 
OVIDII NASONIS SVLMO- | NENSIS AMORVM LIBRI FELICT- | 
TER EXPLICIVNT. | Fol. 243 r.: PVBLII OVIDII NASONIS DE 
RE- | MEDIO AMORIS LIBER PRIMVs. Jol. 252 v., line 4: 
PVBLII OVIDII NASONIS DE REME- | DIO AMORIS LIBRI EX- © 
PLICIVNT. | PVBLII OVIDII NASONIS DE | MEDICAMINE FACIEI 
LIBELLVS. Follows ‘‘ De Nuce Libellus ”’ ending Fol. 255 v. 
Fol. 256 r.: PVBLIL OVIDII NASONIS FA | STORVM LIBER 
-primvs. Jol. 314 7., line 9: Publii Ovidii Nasonis sulmon- 
ensis poetae | clarissimi Fastorum libri sexti & ultimi finis. 
Follows immediately on the same leaf the ** Consolatio ad 
Liviam,’’ which ends fol. 319 v., line 28. Fol. 3207r.: PVBLII 
OVIDII NASONIS DETRI- | STIBVS LIBER PRIMVS. Jol. 361v., 
line 37: P. OVIDII NASONIS DE TRISTIBVS | LIBRI QVINTI ET 
VLTIMI FINIS. JF oll. 362-399 are occupied by the four 
‘‘Libri de Ponto’’; Foll 400-410 v., line 30, by *‘ De Pulice 
Opusculum,”’ ‘‘ In Ibin Liber” and ‘‘ Publii Nasonis vita.” 
Fol. 410 v., ine 31; Huius opera omnia Medea excepta: & 
triumpho Cae | saris: & libello illo pontica lingua composito: 
que | incuria tempoR. perierunt: Iacobus Rubeus natione 
| gallicus honestissimo loco natus ad utilitatem uiué- | tium 
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nec non & posteroR. impressit. | Nicolao Marcello Duce 
inclyto Venetiarum. | M.CCCC.LXXIIII. Fol. 411 r. con- 
tains ‘*‘Tabula eorum que sunt in hoe volumine’”’ and 
**Calphurnii Carmen ad lectorem.’’ The verso is blank. 
WITH 2 BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY BORDERS, ONE COM- 
POSED OF FLOWERS, FRUITS AND LEAVES, AND THE OTHER 
IN THE INTERLACED STYLE, AND 22 LARGE INITIALS, ALSO 
IN THE INTERLACED STYLE, ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND 
COLORS, besides hundreds of other initials painted in red and 
blue. Bound in 2 vols. Folio, old russia, with blind tool- 
ings. Venice: Jacobus Rubeus Gallus, 1474 


* THIRD EDITION OF THE ENTIRE WORKS OF OVID, WHICH IS 
NOT ONLY OF EXCEEDINGLY GREAT RARITY BUT SURPASSES THE 
THE TWO PRECEDING ONES IN BEAUTY, BEING ONE OF THE 
FINEST SPECIMENS OF THE EARLY VENETIAN PRESS. In fact, 
Renouard thinks it no small boast for a private collection 
to possess even this third edition, and Dibdin says that its 
“ ampression presents us with a fspecimen of the early Venetian 
press, which, when in fine preservation, may vie with the best 
productions of the Spiras and of John de Colonia.” A VERY 
LARGE AND FINE COPY, PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST IN EXIST- 
ENCE, AND THE FIRST TO BE OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN 
THIS COUNTRY. Hain-Copinger, 12138; Proctor, 4827. 


[See Reproduction. | 


OF EXTREME RARITY. 

459. fe (WILLIAM). The Palace of Pleasure. 

Vol. I: The Pallace | of Pleasure Beautified, | 

adorned and welfurnished, with | Pleasaunt Historyes and 

excellent | Nouelles, selected out of diuers | good and com- 

menda- | ble Authours. | By VVilliam Painter Clarke | of 

the Ordinaunce and Armarie. | 1569. | Imprinted at Lon- 

don in| Flete streate neare to 8. Dunstones | Church by 
Thomas Marshe. 

Vol. II: THE SECOND | Tome of the Palace of | Pleasure 
econtayning store of goodlye | Histories, Tragical matters, <z 
other | morall argumentes, very requi- | site for delight and 

| profyte. | Chose and selected out | of diwers good and 
commendable au- | thors, and now once agayne correc | ted 
and: encreased. | By VVilliam Painter, Clerke of the | 
Ordinance and Armarie. | Imprinted at London | In Fleat 
strete by Thomas | MARSHE. [1580.] Titles within wood- 


cut border. 2 vols. small 4to, full morocco, gilt edges. 


* EXTREMELY RARE, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION 
OF EARLY NOVEIS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. ‘‘ The Palace 
of Pleasure ” is the first translation into English of the novels 
of Boccaccio, Bandello, the Queen of Navarre, and other 
Italian, French and Spanish novelists, with some stories 
selected from Greek and Latin authors, and is the largest prose 


153 


work in English between ‘Morte d’Arthur” and North 
‘* Plutarch.” From this collection the dramatists of the Eliza- 
bethan age drew their plots, and SHAKESPEARE was indebted 
to it for ‘‘Romeo and Juliet” (see vol. II, p. 180) and ‘‘Timon of 
Athens” (vol. I, p. 55, etc.). Title and first leaf of the dedication 
of vol. in perfect facsimile, otherwise A VERY FINE COPY. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


THE COMPLETE PEPYS. 


460. PEPYS (SAMUEL). Diary, transcribed from the 
Shorthand Manuscript by the Rev. M. Bright; with Lord 
Braybrooke’s Notes. Edited, with additions, by H. B. 
Wheatley. Numerous fine portraits, views, pedigrees, and 
other appropriate illustrations. 10 vols. 8vo, eloth, top 
edge gilt. FINE SET OF THE FIRST ISSUES THROUGHOUT. 

Lond. 1893-99 
* Diary, 8 vols.; vol. 9, A Model Index; vol. 10, Supplemen- 
tary volume of ‘‘ Pepysiana.” By far the nearest approach to 
a complete ‘‘ Pepys” which has yet appeared; and likely to 
remain so for a long period. The author may be regarded as 
the Walpole of the XVIIth Century, and while he certainly 
has not the wit and polish of his successor, it is as certain that 
his pleasant chatter is quite as informing as Walpole’s, while it 
possesses a naiveté and charm which Walpole could never 
have attained. 


461. PEPYS’ AND EVELYN’S DIARIES. Diary and 
Correspondence of SAMUEL PEPYS, with a Life and Notes 
by Richard Lord Braybrooke, 5 vols., 1851; Diary and 
Correspondence of JOHN EVELYN, with the Private Corre- 
spondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicho- . 
las, edited by William Bray, 4 vols., 1850-52. Hngraved 
portraits. Together 9 vols. Post 8vo, full polished calf, gilt 
backs and inside borders, gilt tops. Lond.: Colburn, 1850-52 

* FINE COPY OF THIS HIGHLY ESTEEMED LIBRARY EDITION, 


462. PERCY (SHOLTO AND REUBEN). The Percy 
Anecdotes. 40 vols. in 20. 24mo, half polished calf gilt, 
gilt tops. Lond. 1820-22 


* HANDSOME SET of this entertaining collection. Contains 
numerous fine portraits. 


ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. 


463. PEZAI (LE MARQUIS DE). Zélis au bain, poéme 
en quatre chants. Title engraved by Lemire, 4 beauteful 
plates, 4 charming vignettes, and 4 tarl-preces, all very 
brilliant umpressions, by Aliamet, De Lafosse, Lemire and 
De Longueil, after EISEN. 8vo, full blue crushed levant 
morocco extra, gilt tooled back and inside borders, gilt 
edges, by RIVIERE. Genéve (Paris), 1763 

* THE ORIGINAL EDITION, AND ONE OF THE FEW COPIES PRINTED 
ON LARGE PAPER; EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS STATE. The en- 
gravings of this book are really charming and must be num- 
bered among Eisen’s best work. VERY FINE Copy, and the 
first on Large Paper to be offered by public auction in this 
country. The French copy, which in 1901 realized $75.00, was 
on small paper. j 

15 


A RARE WORK FROM THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM MORRIS. 
464. PIERCE PLOWMAN. The Vision of Pierce Plow- 
man, newly imprinted after the Author’s olde copy, with a 
brefe summary of the principall Matters set before every 
part, called Passus, whereunto is also annexed the Crede of 
Pierce Plowman (this copy lacks this part), never imprinted 
with the book before. 4to, bound in part of a leaf from a 
vellum choir-book. Imprynted at London, by Owen Rogers, 
duelling neare unto Great Saint Bartelmewes Gate, 1561. 


* EXTREMELY RARE. FROM THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM Mor- 
RIS, AND BEARING HIS BOOKPLATE This curious poem is usu- 
ally ascribed to Robert Langland or Longland, who flourished 
in the early part of the XIVth Century, but the authorship 
may still be regarded as an open question. It is one of the 
most remarkable productions of the age, and in importance, 
interest and merit of execution ranks, second only to Chaucer 
for the picture it presents of England during the Middle Ages. 


A PIRATE BROADSIDE OF GREAT RARITY. 
465. PIRATES. AN EXCESSIVELY RARE BROADSIDE 


REGARDING PIRATES and PIRACIES issued in 1700-1701 by 


Command of King William III of England. Folio, printed 


in black letter, with large woodcut initial letter, bearing 


the King’s monogram. 
’**By THE KING, 
A PROCLAMATION. 
William R. 

Whereas we have received information, That notwithstand- 
ing the great Care that hitherto has been taken to Prevent Pi- 
racies, divers Pirates do continue to Infest the Seas wherein 
Our Subjects Trade. to the great Damage of the Merchants, and 
Discouragement of Navigation ... We do hereby Promise and 
Declare that if any Person or Persons belonging to the Company 
or Ships Crew of any Pirate Ship or Vessel... seize... the 
Person Commanding such Ship and Deliver them into the Cus- 
tody of Our Governors, or Commanders in Chief of our Islands 

_ ... (of)... Jamaica, Bermados, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, NEW- 
YorxkE. or the MAssacHuUSETS Bay IN NEW ENGLAND, or the 
Commanders of Our Ships at War at Newfoundland... such 
Persons shall not only have Our Gracious Pardon .. . ( Pirates) 
who after such Pardon relapse the like Evil Practices, shall im- 
mediately upon their being seized. be brought to Tryal... We 
have... sent Communications into the Kast and West Indies 
for the Speedy Tryal, Condemnation and Execution of all Pi- 
rates and Robbers upon the High Seas,” etc., etc. 

“Given at Our Court in Kensington, the Siwth Day of 
March, 1701.” 

AN UNUSUALLY LONG AND INTERESTING ITEM, COMPRISING 60 
LINES. In mat. 


FIRST EDITION OF PLUTARCH’S SAYINGS. 

466. PLUTARCH. Apophthegmata, Francisco Philelpho 
interprete. First Epition. Jol. 1. r.: AD magnanimum 
et illustrissimum principé Philip- | pum Mariam anglum 
inclitum Mediolanesium (sic) du- | cem Francisci Philelphi 
prefatio in Plutarchi cheroné | sis Apophtegmata ad Traia- 
num Czsarem prima | pars. fol. -36 v., lin. 26: FINIS. 
Fol. 37 r: FRANCISCI prefatio ad nicolaum quitum | summt 


155 


pontificé in plutarchi cheronensis apophthe | gmata lacon- 
ica. Fol. 77, lin. 26: Fints | M.CCCC.LXXI. | Impressum 
formis iustoq; nitore coruscans | Hoe Vindelinus condidit 
artis opus. Sols. 78 and 79 blank. With painted initials 
and rubricated throughout. 4to, full straight-grained mo- 
rocco, gilt tooled ornaments in each corner, blind tooled 
back, gilt edges, by C. LEWIs (fine condition). 

Venice, Vindelinus de Spira 1471 


* EDITIO PRINCEPS. THIS BOOK IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE 
HISTORY OF VINDELIN’S PRESS, AS IT CONTAINS THE EARLIEST 
INNOVATIONS OF THAT PRINTER, that is the new form of tailed 
e (for ae) and the 9 for us, and the use of & given up as a part 
of a word. 

A VERY FINE AND LARGE COPY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL AND VERY 
RARE SPECIMEN FROM THE PRESS OF THE CELEBRATED VENETIAN 
PRINTER. It measures 1114 x 8 inches, AND IT IS PROBABLY 
ONE OF THE LARGEST, IF NOT THE LARGEST, COPY KNOWN. It 
has several leaves with rough edges. and the manuscript signa- 
tures are still visible at the extreme bottom of the pages; AND 
IT HAS ALSO TWO BLANK LEAVES OF WHICH THERE IS NO MEN- 
TION IN ANY OF THE EXTANT BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF INCUNABULA. 
THIS IS THE FIRST COPY OFFERED FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUO- 
TION IN THIS COUNTRY. From the celebrated SYKES and SYSTON 
PARK LIBRARIES, WITH BOOKPLATES, 

Roman character, 79 unnumbered leaves, without signa- 
tures and catchwords, 31 lines to the page. Hain-Copinger, 
13140; Proctor, 4083; Panzer, III. 71, 29. The volume is di- 
vided in two parts, which in this copy have been transposed 
by the binder. 


A RARE POE BOOK IN BEAUTIFUL BINDING. 


467. POE (EDGAR ALLAN). Tales of the Grotesque 
and Arabesque. 2 vols, 12mo, new full sage green levant, 
with upper corners inlaid with wine levant, gilt, back pan- 
els richly tooled with a ‘‘ Gold Bug” design, gilt tops, 
uncut. Phil.: Leaand Blanchard, 1840 


* First Edition. Vol. 2 contains the extremely interesting 
four page of ‘‘ Editorial” and ‘‘ Personal” Opinions on the 
Tales comparing the Poe to Shelley, Coleridge, Disraeli, God- 
win, Theodore Hook and other authors. In a very handsome 
binding with original cloth covers and paper label bound in by 
WALTERS, and having inserted in Vol. Ian interesting Auto- 
graph Letter signed Edgar A. Poe, referring to a Book on Oil 
Painting and the ‘‘ Wandering Jew,” date Saturday morning 


468. POE (EDGAR ALLAN). The Complete Works of 
Poe. With portraits, facsimile and illusts. 10 vols. post 
8vo, half polished morocco, gilt tooled backs, gilt tops, 


uncut. N. Y.: Putnam’s [1902] 
* A VERY HANDSOME SET OF THIS ESTEEMED EDITION. 


469. POMPEIANA. The Topography, Edifices, and 
Ornaments of Pompeii. By Sir William Gell and John P. 
Gandy. Extensively illust. Royal 8vo, contemporary full 
calf, sides embossed to a Pompeian design, back gilt to a 
different design, gilt edges. Lond. 1817-19 


* LARGE PAPER Copy of this important book, in an unusual 
binding. From the collection of Sir Gore Ouseley, with his 
bookplate, and his autograph on title-page. 


156 


THE WRITINGS OF ALEXANDER POPE. 


An important Collection, including First Editions of ‘* The 
Rape of the Lock,” ‘‘An Essay on Criticism,’ etc. 


THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF POPE’S MOST 
IMPORTANT WORKS. 

470. [POPE (ALEXANDER).] An Essay on Criticism. 
THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDN. Small 4to, hand- 
Somely bound in full green crushed levant morocco extra, 
gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 

Lond.: Printed by W. Lewis, in Russell Street, 1711 


* POPE’S FIRST PUBLICATION IN BOOK FORM, ISSUED ANONY- 
MOUSLY, AND WRITTEN BEFORE THE AUTHOR WAS TWENTY 
YEARS OF AGE. 


CONTAINING THE FIRST EDITION OF ‘‘RAPE OF THE LOCK,” 
AND WITH THE HALF-TITLE. 

471. [POPE (ALEXANDER).] Miscellaneous Poems and 

Translations, by Several Hands. FIRST EDN. With front- 

aspiece. 8vo, original calf. Lond. : Printed for B. Lintott, 1712 


* EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. In this volume the First EDITION 
OF PoPE’s FAMOUS ‘‘ Rape of the Lock” appears, besides numer- 
ous other poems by him, as well as Prior, Gay and others of 
note. From the collection of Isaac Reed (famous Shakespeare 
commentator), WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH. 

THIS COPY CONTAINS THE HALF-TITLE, WHICH IS NOT GIVEN 
IN THE COLLATION OF THE LOCKER COPY. 


A RARE FIRST EDITION IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING. 


472. POPE (ALEXANDER). The Rape of the Lock: 
an Heroi-Comical Poem, in Five Cantos. Written by Mr. 
Pope. THE RARE FIRST EDN. With six engravings by Du 
Guernier. 8vo. Lond.: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714 


* AN EXQUISITE COPY, being bound BY RIVIERE AND SON, 
AFTER THE DESIGNS BY Mary Hovusrtov, in full crimson crushed 
levant morocco, centre lettering ribbon on side dividing the 
design into two compartments, and covered with an elaborate 
design in the manner of a peacock’s feather on a ground 
richly dotted in gold, etc. 


473. POPE (ALEXANDER). The Temple of Fame, a 
Vision, by Mr. Pope. FIRST EDN. 8vo, half morocco (one 
ecatchword just shaved). Lond.: Printed for B. Lintott, 1715 


* VERY RARE. This copy contains the half-title and the two 
leaves of ‘‘ Proposals ” for printing Chaucer’s works, BOTH OF 
WHICH ARE USUALLY MISSING. 


474, POPE (ALEXANDER). Of Taste: an Epistle, to 
the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of Burlington, occa- 
sioned by his publishing Palladio’s Designs of the Baths, 
Arches, Theatres, ete., of Ancient Rome, by Mr. Pope. 
THE RARE FIRST EDN. Small folio, newly and finely bound 
in brown calf extra, gilt edges. Lond.: J. Gilliver, 1731 

* A FINE COPY, WITH THE HALF-TITLE. 


157 


AY5. POPE (ALEXANDER). Of the Use of Riches, an 
Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen, Lord Bathurst, by 
Mr. Pope. THE SCARCE FIRST EDN. Small folio, newly 
bound in full brown ealf gilt, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 

Lond.: Printed by J. Wright for L. Gilliver, 1732 
* LARGE COPY. 


476. POPE (ALEXANDER). An Epistle from Mr. Pope 
to Dr. Arbuthnot. THE sCARCE FIRST EDN. Small folio, 
newly bound in full brown calf extra, gilt edges. Lond.1734 


477. POPE (ALEXANDER). Of the Characters of 
Women: an Epistle to a Lady. THE SCARCE FIRST EDN. © 
Small folio, newly bound in brown ealf gilt, gilt edges, by 
RIVIERE. Lond. 1735 


478. POPE (ALEXANDER). The Second Epistle to the 
Second Book of Horace, imitated by Mr. Pope. THE SCARCE 
FIRST EDN. Small folio, full brown ealf extra. 

Lond.: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1737 
* A VERY FINE AND LARGE COPY, PRACTICALLY UNCUT. 


479. POPE (ALEXANDER). One Thousand Seven Hun- 
dred and Thirty-Eight: a Dialogue something like Horace, 
by Mr. Pope, Lond.: Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe, 
n. d. [1738]; One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty- 
Hight, Dialogue II, by Mr. Pope, Lond.: Printed for R. 
Dodsley, at Tully’s Head, 1738. FIRST EDNS. OF BOTH 
PARTS. Small folio, full brown ealf gilt, gilt edges. 

* VERY SCARCE. Lond. 1738 


480. POPE (ALEXANDER). The Works of Alexander 
Pope, with Notes and Illustrations by himself and others. 
With a Life of Pope by William Roscoe. Portrait. 10 vols. 
8vo, fine old straight grained red morocco (skillfully re- 
- backed), gilt and blind tooled. Lond. 1824 
* HANDSOME SET of a finely printed library edition. 


THE WITTY ‘‘COUNTERBLAST” TO DRYDEN’S “HIND AND 
THE PANTHER.” 

481. PRIOR (MATTHEW). The Hind and the Panther 
transvers’d to the Story of the Country Mouse and the 
City Mouse; much Malice mingled with a little Wit. THE 
SCARCE FIRST EDN. Small 4to, full morocco extra, gilt 
edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1687 . 


* FINE LARGE COPY of one of the most famous of Prior’s 
productions, issued as a ‘‘ counterblast” to Dryden’s ‘‘ Hind 
and the Panther ” that had appeared shortly before. 

* See under Dryden, No. 275. 


482. PRIOR (MATTHEW). An Ode, in Imitation of the 
Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace, by Mr. Prior. 
THE SCARCE FIRST EDN. Small folio, finely bound in full 
crushed levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 

Lond. : Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges Head,1692 


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483. PUNCH. The First Fifty Years of Punch; or, The 
London Charivari; a complete set of this amusing journal 
from its commencement in 1841 to 1891. With about 50,000 
humorus illusts. by Leech, Doyle and many other artists of 
note. 100 vols. bound in 25. 4to, cloth, gilt. Lond. 1841-91 


*The ‘‘ Times ” issue of the best portion of the great English 
humorous journal. 


484, ABELAIS (FRANCOIS). Lugs | Sonces DRroua- 
| TIQVES DE PANTAGRVEL, | ou sont contenues 
de Vinuention de maistre Fran-'| cois 
Rabelais: & dernie- | re ceuvre d’iceluy, | pour la recreation 
| des bons | esprits. | [Printer’s mark] | A Paris, | Par 
Richard Breton, Rue S. Iacques, a 1|’Escriuisse d’argent. 
| M.D. LXV. With 120 curious woodcuts. Small 8vo, full 
erushed levant morocco gilt, gilt-tooled inside borders, gilt 
edges, by F. BEDFORD. Serr aris iho 
* Collation: Title, 2 leaves for the advertisement ‘‘ Au Lec- 
teur,” and 60 unnumbered leaves containing 120 plates; signa- 
ture A-G in 8, Gin 8. THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, of 
which ‘no more than six or seven copies are known. Some 
persons have found an interpretation of the celebrated romance 
of Rabelais in these skillful woodcuts, and ingenious explana- 
tions have been given about each of these plates. This small 
book is one of the rarest of the Rabelais collection, and was 
missing in the Rowfant Library, which had the four books of 
Pantagruel. Signatures EH 4 and E 5 in perfect facsimile, and 

last blank leaf missing. 


485. RABELAIS (FRANQOIS). Les Epistres de Maistre 
Frangois Rabelais, docteur en medicine, Escrites pendant 
son voyage d’Italie, Nouvellement mises en lumiére. Auec 
des Observations Historiques et l’Abrégé de la Vie de 
VPAuteur. Hngraved front. with portrait. 12mo, calf. 

Paris, 1651 

* FIRST EDITION, WITH ALL THE LETTERS WHICH WERE LATER 
SUPPRESSED. WITH THE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT BY IE'R. CHAU- 
VEAN, WHICH THOUGH PUBLISHED ALMOST A CENTURY AFTER 
RABELAIS’ DEATH IS CONSIDERED_HIS MOST AUTHENTIC PORTRAIT, 
IT IS OFTEN LACKING. 

These 16 letters written to his friend Bishop G. D’Estissac, 
with whom he had spent six years (1524-30) before his career 
at Montpellier, are almost the only personal memorials of Rabe- 
lais that have survived. The notes ware written by Mm. de 
Sainte Marthe. 


THE RARE FIRST EDITION. 


486. RANDOLPH (THOMAS). Poems with the Muses 
Looking Glasse, and Amyntas, by Thomas Randolph, Ox- 
ford, Leonard Lichfield, 1638; THE JEALOUS LOVERS, a 
Comedie, presented to their gracious Majesties at Cam- 
bridge by the students of Trinitie-College; written by 
Thomas Randolph, printed by the Printers to the Universitie 
of Cambridge, 1634; ARISTIPPUS, or the Joviall Philosopher, 
presented in a private shew, to which is added the Con- 


109 


eeited Pedlar, London, printed for Robert Allot, 1635. 
Together in one volume small 4to, full brown levant mo- 

rocco, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 
Oxford, Cambridge, and Lond. 1638, 734, ’35 
* THE RARE First EDITION of Randolph’s poems, ‘‘The 
Jealous Lovers” and ‘‘ Aristippus,” are additions to the present 
copy, as the book is complete without them. Inserted at end 
are 24 pages in contemporary handwriting, containing tran- 
scripts of some of Randolph’s Poems, Sir John Suckling’s 
‘Sessions of the Poets,’’ and his ‘‘ Ballade upon a Wedding,” 

etc. GOOD COPY. 


THE ONLY COPY KNOWN. 


487. REVOLUTION. A | Short | ,but comprehensive | 

Account | of the | rise and progress | of the | Commotions 

| in | America | ,wherein | the secret springs and causes 

thereof are | discovered | .By a Person residing in America, 

from the | beginning of the year 1768, till the latter | end 

of 1779 |. 8vo, pp. 39. Newcastle: | Printed for the Au- 
thor. | MDCCLXXxX | [1780]. 

* NOT FOUND IN ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE COLLECTION, NOR 

CAN THE SALE OF ANY COPY AT AUCTION BE TRACED. Hand- 

somely bound in full green crushed levant morocco, gilt letter- 

ing on side, gilt edges, doublé, by Riviere. The unknown 

author was evidently a fellow-townsman with the Rev. James 

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488. REYNARD THE FOX. The Crafty Courtier; or, 
The Fable of Reinard the Fox, newly done into English 
Verse, from the Antient Latin Iambies of Hartm. Schop- 
perus, by him dedicated to Maximilian, then Emperor of 
Germany. FIRST EDN. 8vo. 

Lond.: Printed for John Nutt, near Stattioner’s-hall, 1706 


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489. RICHARDSON (SAMUEL). The History of Sir 
Charles Grandison, in a Series of Letters Published from 
the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. THE 
RARE FIRST EDITION. 7 vols. small 8vo. A VERY FINE 

COPY IN THE ORIGINAL CALF, AS ISSUED. 
Lond.: Printed for 8. Richardson, 1754 


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A DESCRIPTION OF PENNSYLVANIA, PRINTED IN 1681. 


490. [ROCHEFORT (CHARLES DE).] Histoire Na- 
turelle et Morale des Iles Antilles de l’Amerique. Derniére 
édition reveue et augmentée par l’Autheur d’un Récit de 
PEstat present des celebres Colonies de la VIRGINIE, de 
MARIE-LAND, de la CAROLINE, du Nouveau Duct 
D’ YORK, de PENN-SYLVANIA et de la NOUVELLE ANGLE- 
TERRE, &e. Hngraved title, three folding plates and many 
copper-plates in the text. Small 4to, old half ealf. 

Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1681 


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EST DESCRIPTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA, BEARING THE DATE OF 
THE YEAR OF ITS FOUNDING. In it the author gives a resumé of 
the conditions on which the Province was granted to Penn, 
and a description of the country. which he states is situated 
on the river ‘‘La Ware. NEW ENGLAND, which received two 
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Paradise. AN INTERESTING MENTION IS MADE OF HARVARD 
COLLEGE, also of the TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE INTO THE 
LANGUAGE OF THE INDIANS. Copies of this work are in the 
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TO FIND ANY RECORD OF THE SALE OF A COPY. 


491. ROGERS (SAMUEL). Italy, a Poem, 56 (llusts.; 
and Poems, 71 allusts. 2 vols. 8vo, full wine-colored crimped 
morocco, blind tooling on sides, gilt and blind tooled back, 
inside gilt line borders, gilt edges. Lond.: T. Cadell, 1830-34 


* BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH 128 EXQUISITELY EN- 
GRAVED DESIGNS by FINDEN, LE KEvx and others, after TURNER 
and STOTHARD. 

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492. ROGERS (SAMUEL). Italy, a Poem. With many 
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gold with a beautiful rose, flower and bird design in the 
style of Derome, inside borders, brown silk linings and 
fly-leaves, rough gilt edges, by ZAEHNSDORF. _—__ Lond. 1830 


* SUPERB COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION with brilliant im- 
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TWO-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM ROGERS TO Moxon, his 
publisher. 


493. ROMAN CONTEMPORAIN. The Realists, 10 vols. ; 
The Romanticists, 10 vols. Hinely illust., with plates im 
two states printed on Japan and India paper. 20 vols. 8vo, 
silk cloth, uncut. Phil.: George Barrie, 1896 

* PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON JAPAN PAPER. Edition limited 
to 1900 copies, of which this is No. 794. 


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FIRST EDITION OF ‘‘ THE GERM.” 


494. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). The Germ. 
Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art. 
Four etchings by Holman-Hunt, Ford Madox Brown, 
James Collinson and W. H. Deverell. Complete set of 
the four numbers—all published—with all the wrappers, 
bound by RIVIERE, in one volume, in dark green crushed 
levant morocco, richly gilt back, sides gilt with a floral 
pattern with inlays of another color, gilt top. Lond. 1850 


* First EDITION. Fine and clean copy, with the slip on the 
first two numbers pasted over the original title of the Germ 
and containing the second title of ‘‘ Art and Poetry.” The 
original wrappers to the parts are of the greatest importance 
as containing the contents and names of the contributors 
not appearing elsewhere, nor was any other contents ever is- 
sued) and also as containing the various addresses to the public, 
and the errata. The four parts include 50 poems and articles, 
written by Dante Gabriel Rossétti, Christina Rossetti, W. M. 
Rossetti, W. Bell Scott, Thomas Woolner, Ford Madox Brown, 
and Coventry Patmore. The most famous of all the poems is 
Rossetti’s Blessed Damozel, which appears here in its first form, 
THE PRESENT COPY WAS THE PROPERTY OF THE PRINTER, G. F. 
TUPPER, WHO FINANCED THE UNDERTAKING UNTIL ITS ABRUPT 
TERMINATION, AND INSERTED IS AN INTERESTING LETTER BY HIM 
REFERRING TO IT. | 

‘‘In the early months of 1850 the members of the Pre- 
Raphaelite Brotherhood, with the co operation of some friends, 
brought out a short lived magazine named ‘ The Germ’ (after- 
wards ‘ Art and Poetry ’). Here appeared the first verses and the 
first prose published by Rossetti, including the First Edition of 
Rossetti’s ‘ Blessed Damozel’ (subsequently much altered), ‘My 
Sister's Sleep,’ ‘ From the Cliffs-Noon’ (afterwards called ‘Sea 
Limits’), ‘The Casilon,’ ‘Pax Vobis’ and ‘ Hand and Soul,’ be- 
sides six sonnets; also contributions from W. M. Rossetti (The 
Editor), Christina Rossetti, Coventry Patmore, Ford Madox 
Brown, etc.” 

This little magazine, a set of which is a rare bibliographical 
curiosity, has a significance of a very marked kind. It is all 
fragrant: of sincere and enthusiastic youth and artistic pur- 
pose. It suggests a whole background of ardent and impulsive 
figures, impressed by a generous emotion, and determined to 
see things with their own eyes and tosay them in their own 
way. Thus though the little pages are glorified by the dis- 
tinction which so many of the group afterwards achieved, 
The Germ’ has a real and intrinsic value of its own.—Zen- 
son’s Life of Rossettt. 


PRIVATELY PRINTED. 


495. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Sister Helen: a 
Ballad, by Dante G. Rossetti. 8vo, in original sheets, as 
issued, enclosed within a full levent morocco ease. 

Oxford: Printed for private circulation, 1857 


* THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION, Only a few copies printed. 
Sir Hugh the Heron was printed in 1848 for the young D. G. 
Rossetti, by his grandfather. The famous but short-lived 
periodical ‘‘The Germ” contained contributions by him, as 
did some other periodicals. This ‘‘Sister Helen,” however, 
seems to be his second book. The person for whom it was 
printed was the Rev. William Fulford, who had been the 
editor of the defunct ‘‘Oxford and Cambridge Magazine.” 


162 


THE GREAT ENGLISH CARICATURIST, THOMAS 
ROWLANDSON. 


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EGAN, (Nos. 285-290), FRoISSART (No. 311), LEECH (No, 393). 


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. Lond. 1807 


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(Geoffrey). An Academy for Grown Horsemen, containing 
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Walking Galloping 
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Cantering Tumbling. 


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498. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. Miseries 
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163 


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*¢ Och, the devil take the Iron bolts 
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present day. The names of many prominent actors are 
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502, ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. [Combe 
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164 


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aquatints, BY ROWLANDSON, ALL OF WHICH ARE RICHLY COL- 
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been issued to ridicule the Governor-General, the Marquis of 
Hastings, during the trouble that took place while establishing 
British supremacy in Central India. 

Hastings distinguished himself at Bunker’s Hill, and also 
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504. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. [Combe 
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Dance of Life, a Poem, by the Author of ‘‘ Doctor Syn- 
tax,’’ Lond. 1817. 3 vols. royal 8vo, newly and handsomely 
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to produce an edition of The Dance and Death and The Dance 
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The union of the gruesome and grotesque strongly appealed 
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BOTH IN COLORS. Small 8vo, cloth. Lond. [ca. 1819] 
* A VERY SCARCE CHAP-BOOK OF THE PERIOD. (Grego, Vol. 
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165 


506. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. [Combe 
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Lond.... in Brittaines Bursse, 1633 
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and what was’t, but Crabbed age and youth cannot live to- 
gether,” see sig. 1, 2 verso. 
Rowley was a leading comedian as well as a dramatist, and 
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509. ROYAL COPY. Robertson (Robert). An Essay on 
Fevers. 8vo, bound in full crimson crimped morocco, gilt 
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Lond.: Printed for the author, 1790 


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J. R. 8vo, original dull gray wrappers, uneut. Lond. 1868 
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166 


511. RUSKIN (JOHN). Art Works, best editions, as 
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ored, and numerous woodcuts, FIRST EDN., 3 vols., Lond., 
1851-53; Modern Painters, illust with 87 exquisite engrav- 
angs on steel and woodcuts, vols. 1 and 2, best revised edi- 
tions, vols. 3-5, which contain the plates, FIRST EDN., 5 
vols., Lond., 1851-60; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 
alust. with 14 plates, FIRST EDN., Lond., 1849. Together 9 
vols., royal 8vo, newly and elegantly bound in full 
sprinkled calf gilt, gilt tops. original cloth covers preserved 
at end of each volume, by MORRELL of London. 

Lond. 1849-60 


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512. RUSKIN (JOHN). MopERN PAINTERS. Compris- 
ing General Principles of Truth, Imaginative and Theoretic 
Faculties, True Ideal, False Ideal, Use of Pictures, Moun- 
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illust. in color and with beautifully engraved steel plates. 
5 vols royal 8vo, full embossed morocco, gilt edges. 

Lond. 1857 


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3, 4 and 5 contain the first impressions of all the beautiful 
steel and colored plates for which the work is famous. 


BEAUTIFUL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. 


513. QQ) A’DI. The Bustan (Fruit Garden). A Persian 
\* Manuscript of 354 pp. containing 16 illumina- 

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ornamentation on side in Arabesque design and arrange- 
ment. XVIII century 


* Sa'di, best known in English-speaking lands as the au- 
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1184. The Bustan, or Fruit Garden, is the other of his twin 
masterpieces, and is a philosophical poem in ten cantos of 
double-rhymed verse, abounding in lofty ethical observations, 
contrasting in form with the Gulistan which is in prose. It is 
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quality, such as justice, benevolence, generosity, etc. The 
first two pp. are illuminated in gold, and the 16 fascinating 
illustrations, occupying each nearly one p., are in red, green, 
drab, mauve and other secondary colors. The text on each p. 
is inclosed with a gilt border. 


167 


THE WRITINGS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. 


Complete Set of the First Editions, 74 volumes; the 
Author’s Favourite Edition, with extra illustrations and 
original drawings, 102 volumes; original Galley-Proofs of 
his Journal; Corrected Proofs of his History of Scotland 
(see Reproduction), etc. 


WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM SCOTT INSERTED. 


514. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). The Life of John Dryden. 
By StR WALTER Scott. LARGE PAPER EDITION. Limited 
to 50 copies. Royal quarto, original boards, cloth back, 
original paper labels, edges entirely uncut. Wzuth portrar 
of Dryden on India paper. - Lond. 1808 


* Laid in is a very interesting ONE-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER 
SIGNED BY SIR WALTER ScoTT, addressed to his cousin, from 
Abbotsford, October 28th, the year not given: ‘‘The times 
are very unfavorable for providing for young persons, but I 
should be glad to avail myself of any opportunity to serve your 
brother. I wish you and he would come here on Monday or 
Tuesday next and we will talk the matter over. We can make 
you comfortable in the way of beds, and I hope James will 
bring the pipes. My kind regards to Mrs. Scott and my Uncle, 
and believe me, truly yours Walter Scott.” 


A COMPLETE SET OF SCOTT’S NOVELS IN FIRST EDITIONS. 


515. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). WAVERLEY NOVELS. 
Complete set: 


Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1814. 

Guy Mannering. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1815. 

The Antiquary. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1816. 

Tales of My Landlord. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1816. 

Tales of My Landlord. Second Series. 4 vols. Edin- 
burgh, 1818. 

Tales of My Landlord. Third Series. 4 vols. Edin- 
burgh, 1818. 

Rob Roy. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1818. 

Ivanhoe. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1820. 

The Monastery. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1820. 

The Abbot. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1820 

Kenilworth. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1821. 

The Fortunes of Nigel. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. 

The Pirate. 38 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. 

Peveril of the Peak. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. 

Quentin Durward. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1823. 

Saint Ronan’s Well. 38 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. 

Redgauntlet. 38 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. 

Tales of the Crusaders. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1825. 

Woodstock. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1826. 

Chronicles of the Canongate. First Series. 2 vols. 
Edinburgh, 1827. 
. 168 


Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. 3 vols. 
Edinburgh, 1828. 

Anne of Geierstein. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1829. 

Tales of My Landlord. Fourth Series. 4 vols. Edin- 
burgh, 1882. 


ALL First EDITIONS. 74 vols. 12mo, uniformly and hand- 
somely bound in full calf gilt, gilt tops, by RIvieRKE. 


Edinburgh, 1814-32 

* A VERY BEAUTIFUL SET. Some of Scott’s novels in first 

edition— Waverley, Ivanhoe, Tales of My Landlord (first series) 
and others—are extremely rare. 


THE AUTHOR'S FAVORITE EDITION. UNUSUALLY CHOICE 


SET. 
516. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). The Complete Works of 


Sir Walter Scott, including: 


The Waverley Novels. 48 vols. 1829-33 
The Waverley Anecdotes. 2 vols. 1833 
Portraits illustrative of the Waverley Novels. One vol. 

(VERY RARE.) 1824 
Prose Works. 28 vols. 1834-36 
Poetical Works. 12 vols. 1833 
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, by J. G. Lock- 

hart. 10 vols. 1839 


A SERIES OF TWELVE BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED ORIGI- 
NAL WATER-COLOR PORTRAITS TO ILLUSTRATE THE 
NOVELS OF SCOTT. One vol, royal 4to. 


Together 102 vols. 16mo and 4to (12 portraits), hand- 


somely bound in half red morocco, gilt tops, uneut, by 
RAMAGE. Edinburgh and Lond. 1824-39 


* BEAUTIFUL SET OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF THE AUTHOR'S 
FAVORITE EDITION. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces 
and vignettes. and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 51 
engravings, 82 portraits and ORIGINAL DRAWINGS depicting 
some Of the most important characters. In addition to the 
volume of portraits engraved by Cowper after famous paint- 
ings, there is a 4to volume containing twelve BEAUTIFULLY 
COLORED PORTRAITS of the female characters of Scott’s Novels, 
including Mary Queen of Scots, Edith Belenden, Margaret 
Ramsay, Catherine Glover, Isabelle Vere, etc. One of the 
most complete and beautiful sets of the original issue of this 
highly esteemed edition ever offered for sale. 


ORIGINAL GALLEY-PROOFS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S 
JOURNAL. 


517. SCOTT (SIR WALTER) Bart., of Abbotsford. His 


Journal, 1825-1831. Large 4to vol. half morocco, uncut 
472 pp., double sheets, galley-proofs throughout, emended 
and corrected with the pen for, and by, John Gibson Lock- 
hart. Together with ‘‘ Extracts from a Family Journal, 
10 pp., Letters from Sir W. S. to Sir Alexander Wood, 


7% 


169 


Maria Edgeworth, Lady Louisa Stuart, and others; and 
long memoranda, 12 pp., by J. L. Adolphus, afterwards 
published in Lockhart’s Memoirs, of his (Adolphus’) three 
visits to Abbotsford. Enclosed in full green crushed levant 
morocco solander case, with inner protecting silk cover. 
Edinburgh, not published, n. d. 


* The spelling ‘‘Jurnal” is on the authority of Miss Scott, 
now Mrs. Lockhart. 

A very large proportion, perhaps three-fourths, of the 
material included in this set of proofs, was deleted by Lockhart 
for the purpose of preparing his Life (Edinburgh, 1837). Down 
column after column are drawn lines at the margin’s edge, 
outside of which is written the word ‘‘Out.” Usually this 
denotes exclusion for personal reasons. The work was evidently 
set up for Lockhart’s convenience in the preparation of the 
Life (1837), wherein the extracts from the Journal occupy the 
bulk of Vols Vland VII. Among the corrigendais an amusing 
one, p. 66, were the typesetter read ‘‘Stones from Melrose ”’ for 
‘“‘Scenes from Moliére.” On p. 93, after ‘‘Clamorous fora 
motto”: 

‘«* Go to 
D—n the motto.’” 
along with some other similar informalities, has been relegated 
to oblivion in the Life. 

This item is a unique book; for the varying readings, and the 
innumerable corrections and discreet deletions in Lockhart’s 
hand, render it an ‘‘association book” of remarkable quality. 
There are here and there annotations in pencil or ink, as, for 
instance, on p. 199, with reference to Sir Walter’s entry of 
Dec. 12, 1826: ‘‘—my own picture. painted twenty years ago 
by Raeburn, for Constable, and which was to have been brought 
to sale among the rest of the wreck—hanging quietly up in the 
dining-room at Dalkeith.” (Etc) The pencilled marginal 
annotation runs: *‘ A. Constable on obtaining possession of his 
pictures, &c., in 3 Park Place, from the Trustee on his Estate, 
wrote to H. G. Duke of Buccleuch or to his guardn (?) offering 
the portrait here alluded to & which was at once accepted & 
paid for with £—. The Portrait was dispatched from Park 
Place to Dalkeith Palace dining hall & placed under charge of 
Mr. [?] a friend of A. C.’s & formerly a paper maker at Las- 
wade (sic.)” 


THREE SETS OF PROOF-SHEETS FOR VOL. I OF SCOTT'S 
HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, WITH CORRECTIONS AND 
ANNOTATIONS IN SCOTT'S HAND 
ON EVERY LEAF. 


518.°;°SCOTT (SIR WALTER). THREE CORRECTED SETS 
OF PROOFS for the ‘‘ History of Seotland,’’ Vol. I, with 
hundreds of corrigenda, emendations, and additions marked 
in Scott’s own hand. A volume of ten hundred and forty 
pages, exclusive of inserted emendations. Thick 12mo, 
BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL POLISHED LEVANT, RICHLY 
GOLD-TOOLED ON SIDES AND BACK WITH RUNNING BORDERS 
AND INDIVIDUAL DESIGNS OF THISTLE-BLOOM, RAISED BANDS, 
EDGES UNCUT; INSIDE GOLD-LINE AND THISTLE BORDERS, 

170 


[Scorr. History or ScoTLaAND, THE AUTHOR’S OWN Copy, WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS AND AppitTions. SzE No. 618.] 


Py > ye ake 


DRAB WATERED SILK ENDS AND FLIES, ENCLOSED IN LEVANT 
SOLANDER CASE, WITH INNER PROTECTING SILK COVER. 


[Edinburgh: Published 1829] 


* « Anne of Geierstein was finished before breakfast on the 
29th of April [1829]; and his Diary mentions that immediately 
after breakfast he began his Compendium of Scottish History 
for Dr. Lardner’s Cyclopzedia. We have seen, that when the 
proprietors of that work, in July, 1828, offered him £500 for an 
abstract of Scottish History in one volume, he declined the 
proposal. They subsequently offered £700, and this was 
accepted; but though he began the task under the impression 
that he should find it a heavy one, he soon warmed to the sub- 

- ject, and pursued it with cordial zeal and satisfaction. One 
volume, it by and by appeared, would never do—in his own 
phrase, ‘he must have elbow-room’—and I believe it was 
finally settled that he should have £1,500 for the book in 
two volumes, of which the first was published before the end of 
this year.” —LockHaRrt’s Life. 


‘‘T have a letter from Dr. Lardner proposing to me to pub- 
lish the history in June. ButI dare not undertake it in so short 
a space, proof-sheets and all considered; it must be October—no 
help for it.”—Scott’s Journal, May 2, 1829. 


‘*This short History of Scotland, it was found, could not be 
comprised ina single volume, and the pub.ishers handsomely 
agreed to give the author £1,500 for two volumes, forming the 
first and fourth issues of their own Cabinet Cyclopedia, the 
publication of which was commenced before the end of the 
year.”—LOCKHART'’SS note to the preceding entry. 


‘« Having finished Anne I began and revised fifteen leaves of 
the History, and sent them to Dr. Lardner, I think they read 
more trashy than 1 expected. But when could I ever please 
myself, even when I have most pleased others?” . . - ‘‘ The 
weather did not permit me to go beyond the courtyard, for it 
continued cold and rainy, I have employed the day in correct- 
ing the history for Cyclopedia as far asit would run out. Or. 
Lardner’s measure is a large one, but so much the better. I 
like to have ample verge and space enough, anda mere abridg- 
ment would be discreditable.”’—Journal, April 29 and 80, 1829. 


item forms an intimate personal souvenir of Scott’s lit- 
erary life, and has especial value in that a comparison of three 
proofs of the same volume reveals the infinitude of pains taken 
by the author up tothe final years of his crowded life. Between 
the issue of Vol I and that of Vol. II in the following year 
Sir Walter suffered a severe recurrence of the paralyzing mal- 
ady. at last fatal, which was induced by overstrain in meeting 
debts of honor assumed by him on the failure of the Ballan- 
tynes, Within the year after theabove Journal entries, he had 
completed the two substantial volumes of the History the 
Letters on Demonolgy and Witchcraft, Tales of a Grandfather, 
4th Series, and other minor works. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


519. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). Letters on Demonology 
and Witcheraft. Front. (a view of the old house of Major 
Weir, the reputed wizard); to which are added George 
Cruikshank’s famous set of etchings, in two states, plain and 
colored. ‘Chick 12mo, full crimson levant morocco, top 
edge gilt. Lond. 1830 

171 


520. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). The Lord of the Isles. 
With all his Introductions and the Editor’s Notes. IJllust. 
by numerous engravings on wood from drawings by Birket 
Foster and John Gilbert. 8vo, bound in full purple levant 
extra, with an elaborate design in gold of leaves, dots, 
bluebells, ete., gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Edinburgh, 1857 


* The sides and back of a dark purple almost a wine color 
which is so covered with the design of bluebells and vines in 
the centre as to be no more thana background for its elaborate 
pattern. The border is a running cluster of bluebells edging 
and outline made by countless dots, done in gold. A very 
handsome binding, making a very beautiful book. 


COMPLETE SET. ONLY 100 COPIES PRINTED. 


§21. SCOTT GALLERY AND SCOTTISH PORTRAITS. 
The Seott Gallery: a Series of 146 photogravures, together 
with descriptive letterpress, by J. L. Caw, 4 vols ; Scottish 
Portraits, with an Historical and Critical Introduction and 
Notes by J. L. Caw, 5 vols. Together 9 vols. folio, uni- 
formly and handsomely bound in three-quarter green 
crushed levant morocco extra, gilt tooled floral backs in 
mosaic, gilt tops, uncut. 

Lond. and Bost.: J. B. Millet Co., n. d. [recent] 


* This series comprises 266 finely executed photogravures. 
PROOFS ON JAPAN VELLUM, several of which are mounted, 
This collection has special value because of the plates being 
reproduced from the originals in the possession of the King of 
England. The Honorable Mrs. Maxwell Scott also placed at 
the disposal of the editor the magnificent collection at Abbots- 
ford never before reproduced. ONLY 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED 
OF THIS MAGNIFICENT SET. 


FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION OF THIS 
HUMOROUS COLLECTION. 

§22. SEYMOUR (ROBERT). Sketches by Seymour. 
Published by Mrs. Seymour, 16 Park Place West, Liverpool 
Road, and Effingham Wilson, London.  8vo, new three- 
quarter crimson “crushed levant morocco silt, gilt top, by 
RIVIERE. Lond. 1839 


* A FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 
THIS FAMOUS COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS PLATES, Consisting of 
one hundred and eighty-five plates (printed on different colored . 
papers), which includes the FIVE SEPARATE TITLES. 


A SUPERB COPY OF THE BOYDELL SHAKESPEARE. 
PROOF IMPRESSION IN OPEN LETTERS, AND CHOICELY 
BOUND. 

523. SHAKESPEARE GALLERY: THE BOYDELL’S 
SHAKESPEARE GALLERY. A collection of Prints from Pic- 
tures painted for the purpose of illustrating his Dramatic 
Works, inelnding the seven ages; aseries of 100 very large 
and magnificent engravings, the plates being most brilliant 
proof impressions with inscriptions in open letters. 2 vols. 
atlas folio in the contemporary russia extra, gold tooling 


172 


on sides, gilt edges. Lond.: Published by John and Josiah 
Boydell; Shakespeare Gallery; Pall-Mall and No. 90 Cheap- 
side; printed by W. Bulmer and Co , 1803. 

‘ _*A MAGNIFICENT COPY, the plates being exceptionally bril- 
lant proof impressions with inscriptions in open letters and the 
original binding in perfect state of preservation. This copy 
contains all the rarer plates, which are frequently wanting, 
ineluding the small Romney plate, which is nearly almost 
always absent from provof copies. These splendid engravings 
are from paintings by Northcote, Smirke. Westall, Fuseli, Opie, 
Reynolds, Stothard, and other distinguished artists. : 


524. SHAKESPEARE. Lofft (Capel). Laura; or, an 
Anthology of SONNETS and Elegiac Quatuorzains, English, 
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German; original 
and translated; great part never before published. With a 
preface, Notes and Index. 5 vols. 16mo, half vellum, gilt 
backs, bookplate of Mary Roberts in each vol. Lond. 1814 


* VERY RARE, There may be something left to say about 
the Sonnet, after Capel Lofft finished his preface of 201 pages 
on the subject, but it is unlikely. A number of Shakespeare’s 
Sonnets are included, and many direct and incidental refer- 
ences are made to him, in the work. 


525. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). The Plays of Shake- 
speare. 9 vols. 48mo, three quarter red levant morocco, 
gilt tops. Lond.: W. Pickering, 1825 


* Fine copy of Pickering’s Diamond Edition of Shakespeare. 


HUGO'S LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE FINELY EXTRA- 
ILLUSTRATED. 

526. SHAKESPEARE. William Shakespeare. From 
the French of Victor Hugo, by M. B Anderson. Stont 
12mo, new full emerald green levant, gold panelled back, in- 
side line borders, gilt top, uncut. Chicago, 1884 


*Handsome copy, CHOICELY £XTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE IN~ 
SERTION OF ABOUT 70 ENGRAVED PORTRAITS of Shakespeare, 
Hugo, Voltaire, the Earl of Surrey, “Anne Boleyn, La Fon- 
taine, Milton, Henry VIII, Cesar, the Earl of Southampton, 
Machiavelli, James I, Moliére, and others referred to in the 
text. 


THE WRITINGS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 


A Choice Collection of First Editions, Including ‘« The 
Cenci,” ‘‘ Prometheus Unbound,”’ in Original Boards, Un- 
cut, etc. 


597. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). The Revolt of 
Islam: a Poem in Twelve Cantos. First EDN. 8vo, newly 
and handsomely bound in full blue crushed and polished 


levant, gilt edges, by RIvVIERE. 
Lond.: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1818 


*A vERY FINE copy. Contains the rare half title after page 
XXXII.—which Buxton Forman, the eminent Shelley author- 


173 


ity, said that he only knew of the existence of a few copies— 
and the leaf of errata. As is well known, this is’ really ‘‘ Laon 
and Cyntha,’’ with a new title and a few alterations, which 
Ollier, the publisher, refused to sell when only a few copies 
had been disposed of. 


FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 


528. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). The Cenci. A 
Tragedy, in Five Acts. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant 
morocco gilt, gilt top, front margins trimmed, lower margins 
uncut. Italy: for C. & J. Ollier, ... Lond. 1819 

*THE RARE FirST EDITION. Shelley only printed 250 copies. 
It was published without a half-title, but has a half-title pre- 
ceding the text. The Cenci is the only book of Shelley’s of 
which a second edition appeared in his lifetime. Shelley in- 
tended to have Guido’s portrait of Beatrice as a frontispiece; 
and while it did not appear in England until six months after 
it was finished, it was then without the frontispiece. 


529. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Rosalind and 
Helen. A Modern EKeclogue; with Other Poems. First Epz1. 
8vo, BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE IN FULL CRUSHED 
LEVANT CRIMSON MOROCCO, WITH CORNER INLAYS (ON A NOBLE 
SCALE) OF EMERALD GREEN, STARRED WITH WHITE ROSES, THE 
BACK ORNAMENTATIONS WHITE ROSES AND GOLD LEAFAGE, INSIDE 
PANELS, AND SILK DOUBLURES, TOP EDGE GILT, PROTECTED BY A 
WOOL-LINED, DUST-PROOF CASE, LETTERED LIKE A BOOK. 

Lond. 1819 


*A VERY BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF BINDING. 


IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, WITH THE LABEL. 


030. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Prometheus Un- 
bound. A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts; with Other Poems. 
First EDN. 8vo, boards, uncut, with the label. In full levant 
slip case. Lond.: Oller, 1820 

*An exceptionally fine copy, very scarce in such condition 
with the half-title, and two leaves of advertisements at end. 


The following interesting note in the fly-leaf:—‘‘I bought 
this book in 1885 of Wilson the bookseller in King William 
street [London]. He had it of a Miss Rumble, housekeeper of 
Shelley ’s friends, the Gisbornes. Chas. Hargrove, Leeds.’’ 


Chas. Hargrove is a well-known Unitarian minister, and an 
ardent book-lover and collector. 


031. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Hellas, a Lyrical 
Drama. First EDN. 8v0O, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY SANGORSKI 
AND SUTCLIFFE IN FULL CRUSHED LEVANT EMERALD GREEN 
MOROCCO, WITH FLORAL AND FLOREATED INLAYS OF ROSE-RED AND 
GOLD, AND AUTUMN BROWN LEAFAGE, WITH RUBY POINTS, AND 
RICH GOLD TOOLING, INSIDE PANELS, TOP EDGE GILT, PROTECTED IN 
WOOL-LINED BUCKRAM CASE. Lond.: Ollier, 1822 


*A very lovely copy. 
174 


532. SHELLEY, HUNT, BYRON and others. The Liberal. 
Verse and Prose from the South. Vols. I-II (all issued), 
2 vols. 8vo, full straight grained morocco, rebacked. 

Lond. 1822-23 
*In this short-lived periodical appeared for the first time 


Shelley’s translation of the ‘‘May Day Night’’ from Faust, 
also articles by Hunt, Byron and others. 


533. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). The Masque of 
Anarchy. A Poem. Now first published, with a preface, by 
Leigh Hunt. 12mo, original boards, paper label (small piece 
of back missing), uncut. Lond.: Moxon, 1832 

First EDITION. VERY RARE IN BOARDS. With the two pages 
of advertisement at the end and the half-title, as issued. Al- 
though written in 1819 and sent to Leigh Hunt for publication, 
it was not printed until 1832. Hunt’s explanatory preface of 
30 pp. adds much interest to it. 


034. SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY). A Trip to 
Scarborough: a Comedy, as performed at the Theatre Royal 
in Drury Lane. First EpN. 8vo, full polished calf extra, gilt 
edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1771 


* With the half-title (frequently missing) and the Epilogue 
which was written by David Garrick. 


FIRST ISSUE OF ‘‘THE CRITIC.’’ 


5380. SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY). The Critic; 
or, A Tragedy Rehearsed. A Dramatic Piece in Three Acts, 
as it is performed at the Theatre Royal 1 in Drury Lane. First 
edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1781 

*FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION (pp. 98), 


with the half-title, frequently missing and containing one page 
of advertisement at end, which seldom occurs. 


FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF “SCHOOL FOR 
SCANDAL.’’ 


536. [SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY).] The 
School for Scandal: a Comedy. The excessively rare First 
EDN. 8vo, full polished calf extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. 

Dublin: printed for J. Ewling 


*PINE copy. Contains the Errata on reverse of the last leaf. 
The work was probably published’in 1781. 


587. SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY). The Duen- 
na: a Comic Opera in Three Acts, as performed at the Theatre 
Royal, Covent Garden. First epN. 8vo, full polished calf 
extra gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1794 

*The Dramatis Personae included Mrs. Mattocks, Quick, Wil- 
son and others. 


175 


ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN LITERATURE. FIRST 
EDITION. ONLY A FEW COPIES KNOWN. 


538. SIDNEY (SIR PHILIP). Tue | Covnresse | oF 
PEMBROKES | ARCADIA, | WRITTEN BY SiR Puruiere | SIDNEr. | 
Lonpon | Printed by John Windet, for William Ponsonbie. | 
Anno Domini, 1590. Small 4to, oRIGINAL CALF, AS ISSUED. 

Lond. 1590 


*THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, WHICH IS OF GREAT 
INTEREST AND VALUE, AS THE TEXT DIFFERS MATERIALLY FROM 
THAT OF THE SUBSEQUENT ISSUE. The influence of this romance 
on contemporary literature was considerable. SHAKESPEARE 
based on Sidney’s story of the ‘‘ Paphlagoni—an unkind King,’’ 
(book II), the episode of Gloucester and his son in ‘‘ King 
Lear,’’ while many phrases in his plays, especially in the 
‘“‘Tempest’’ and ‘‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’’ closely re- 
semble expressions in the ‘‘ Arcadia,’’ and justify the conjecture 
that he studied the romance as carefully as he studied Sidney’s 
sonnets or his masque of the ‘‘Lady of May.’’ There is an 
unmistakable resemblance between MHolophernes in ‘‘ Love’s 
Labour Lost,’’ and Rombus, the pedantic schoolmaster in 
Sidney’s masque. SPENSER’S ‘‘Faerie Queene’’ also stands 
indebted at many points to Sidney’s romance. Among other 
imitators of Sidney may be mentioned Nathaniel Baxter, Lady 
Mary Wroth, John Reynolds, Francis Quarles, ete. Plots of 
Plays were also drawn from the ‘‘Arcadia’’ by Shirley, Beau- 
mont and Fletcher, ete. 

A GOOD AND PERFECT COPY THROUGHOUT, OF THIS IMPORTANT 
ITEM, OF WHICH ONLY TWO OR THREE PERFECT COPIES AS THE 
ABOVE ARE KNOWN. The only copy ever offered at public 
auction in America. 


[See Reproduction. ] 


539. SPENSER (EDMUND). The Faerie Queene, dis- 
posed into XII. bookes fashioning twelue Morall Vertues. 
Small folio, full sprinkled ealf, gilt. 

At London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609 
*FIRST FOLIO EDITION AND FIRST EDITION OF THE PART. ‘‘ Two 
Cantos of Mvtabelitie: Which, both for Forme and Matter, 
appeare to be parcell of some following Booke of the Faerie 
Queene, under the Legend of Constancie. Never before wm- 
printed.’’ With fine impressions of the head and tail pieces. 
A corner of the margin of the last leaf has been replaced, but 
no part of the text is damaged. 


540. SPENSER (EDMUND). Complete Works in Verse 
and Prose. Grosart’s fine edition. Edited with a copious 
new Life based on original Researches, and Glossary. Mine 
India paper proof portraits of the author and Sir Walter 
Raleigh by Alais, views by P. G. Hamerton, facsimiles, ete. 
9 vols. small thick 4to, original boards (upper cover of 
Vol. I loose), uncut. Lond. 1882-84 


* LARGE PAPER, only 100 copies printed; intended to be in 
10 vols., but Vol. 2 was never issued. 


176 


Books relating to all Branches of Sport : Horse-Racing, 
Cock-Fighting, Hunting, etc. 


41. SPORTING. Cotton (Charles). The Compleat 
Gamster; or, Instructions How to Play at Billiards, Trucks, 
Bowls, and Chess, together with all manner of usual and 
most Gentle Games, either on Cards or Dice, to which is 
added the Arts and Mysteries of Riding, Archery, AND 
COCK FIGHTING. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. With 
engraved title in compartments, and poetical explanation 
opposite. Small 8vo, full red morocco, gilt edges, in the 
manner of Roger Payne, by DE COVERLEY. 

Lond.: Printed by A. M. 1674 


* A FINE COPY OF A VERY CURIOUS VOLUME. 


542. SPORTING. SOMERVILLE’S ‘‘ THE CHACE,’’ FIRST 
EDITION. Somerville (William). The Chace. A Poem. 
(One line from Virgil and two from Horace.) THE EX- 
CEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION’ With spirited frontis- 
piece by Gravelot. Lond.: Printed for G. Hawkins, at 
the Globe in Pater-noster-Row, M DCC XXXV. 


* A BEAUTIFUL COPY, being bound in full green crushed 
levant morocco (two shades), the corners filled with an inlaid 
design of arunning stag in blind on a powdered gilt ground, 
border of gilt leaves, etc. A MOST APPROPRIATE EXAMPLE. 
THE DESIGN WAS EXECUTED By MARY HOUSTON AND THE 
VOLUME BOUND BY RIVIERE. 


LARGE PAPER COPY OF NEWCASTLE ON THE HORSE, IN 
ORIGINAL HALF MARBLED BOARDS, UNCUT, A 
MOST UNUSUAL STATE. 


543. SPORTING. Newcastle (William Cavendish—Duke 
of). A GENERAL SYSTEM OF HORSEMANSHIP in all its 
Branches, containing a faithfull Translation of the most 
noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, 
Duke of Neweastle, entitled The Manner of Feeding, Dress- 
ing, and Training the Horses for the Great Saddle, etc. 
With all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, 
which were engraved by the best foreign masters, etc. Lond. : 
Printed for J. Brindley, Bookseller to his Royal Highness 
the Prince of Wales, 1743. 

(Also) A GENERAL SYSTEM OF HORSEMANSHIP in all its 
Branches... the Manner of Keeping, Training, and Exer- 
cising Race-Horses ... . the Perfect Knowledge of Horses, 
being a succinct Account of their various Disorders . . 
with proper Receipts and Methods of Care, ete. Translated 
from the French Edition, published at the Hague, under 

177 


the Inspection of the learned Dr. Boerhaave, by Gasper de 
Saunier... with the Addition of all his Father’s Receipts, 
etc. Lond.: Printed by J. Brindley, Bookseller to his 
Royal, Highness the Prince of Wales, 1743. 2 volumes, 
large folio, IN THE ORIGINAL HALF MARBLED BOARDS, 
TOTALLY UNCUT. Lond. 1743 


* A LARGE PAPER COPY OF THIS FAMOUS WORK ON HORSE- 
MANSHIP, WITH EXCELLENT IMPKESSIONS OF THE NUMEROUS 
PLATES. PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN IN THIS MOST UNUSUAL CON- 
DITION, 


A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF 
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF SPORTING BOOKS. 


544. SPORTING. BECKFORD ON HUNTING. FIRST EDN. 
Beckford (Peter). Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of 
Familiar Letters toa Friend. With BEAUTIFUL IMPRESSION 
of the stipple frontispiece by BARTOLOZZI, after CIPRIANI, 
and the plate of dog kennels at end (both of which are usu- 
ally missing). Small 4to, newly and handsomely bound in 
full mottled calf extra, gilt edges and inside borders, by 
RIVIERE. Sarum: Printed by E. Easton, 1/81 

* A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF 
THIS FAMOUS SPORTING BOOK. This copy contains the HALF- 
TITLE. (Only one other copy is recorded as having been sold at 
auction in this country. The author was one of the most emi- 
nent sportsmen of his day, being the master of a famous pack of 
foxhounds. This work is tbe first in English that describes mi- 
nutely and accurately the whole system of the sport of hunting. 
Beckford was highly educated and it is said would ** bag a fox 
in Greek. finda hare in Latin. inspect his kennels in Jialian, 
and direct the economy of his stables in exquisite French.” 


AN EXCESSIVELY RARE SPORTING BOOK, WITH BRILLIANT 
IMPRESSIONS OF THE COLORED PLATES. 


545. SPORTING. THE PYCHELY HuntT. (A Series of 
EIGHT LARGE AND VERY FINE COLORED SPORTING PRINTS, 
PRINTED IN COLORS AND TOUCHED UP BY HAND), and de- 
picting: ‘‘ A distinguished Character in the Pychely Hunt,’’ 
** Push him up, Tomboy,’’ **. .. Now Contract, says Dick, 
By Jove, these D——d Quornites shall now see the trick,” 
‘* A Check,’ ** The Trick,”* ** Proof of BotMome se 
fore Horse of the Team,’’ Who-oop, I was never so ecar- 
ried,’’ all engraved by Jukes, after -C. Lorraine Smith. 
Large oblong folio, full crimson crushed levant morocco, 
richly tooled back and side, gilt top and inside borders, by 
RIVIERE. Lond.: March, 1790 

* A SUPERB UNCUT COPY OF AN FXCESSIVELY RARE COLORED 
SPORTING BOOK, WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE 1HE FIRST TO BE 
OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. Very few 


perfect copies now remain in existence, the book having been 
so frequently broken for framing purposes. 


178 


546. SPORTING. Chifney (Samuel, of Newmarket). 
Genius Genuine. A fine part in riding a race, known only 
to the Author; why there are so few good runners, or why 
the turf horses degenerate... A full aceount of the 
Prince’s horse escape running at Newmarket, ete., ete. 
8vo, full polished calf, extra, gilt top, ALL OTHER EDGES 
ENTIRELY UNCUT AND WITH THE HALF TITLE. 

Lond.: Sold only for the Author, (1791) 

* AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE BOOK ON ENGLISH HORSE RACING. 
The author was an eminent jockey, and was long considered 
to be the best horseman of his time. It was inconnection with 
the riding of the horses for the Prince of Wales in July, 1790, 
that his riding was questioned, the above work being the re- 
sult of the enquiry instituted by the English Jockey Club. 
He published the work at the very high price (for those times) 


of five pounds. He was the inventor of the famous Chifney 
bit for horses, called after his name and still used. 


A FINELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WORK ON COCK-FIGHTING. 


547. SPORTING. Cock FIGHTING. Sketchley (W.— 
Gent). The Cocker; containing every information to the 
Breeders and Amateurs of that Noble Bird the Game Cock;. 
‘to which is added a variety of useful information for the 
instruction of those who are attendants on the Cock Pit. 
8vo, newly and beautifully bound in full green crushed 
levant morocco, with five figures of game cocks (one in a 
large ornamental panel) on the side, back to match, gilt 
top, uncut. By RIVIERE. 


Burton-on-Trent, 1814 (later issue) 


* A SUPERB COPY MOST ARTISTICALLY BOUND BY THE EMI- 
NENT BINDER. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of ABOUT 
TWELVE RARE COLORED PRINTS OF COCK MATCHES. including 
Leicester Cock Pit (IN COLORS); Royal Cock Pit (IN COLORS) ; 
Cock Fighting (IN COLORS); Cock Fighters Short-Hand List, 
1822 (A VERY RARE BROADSIDE); Cock Pit Royal, 1746 (IN 
COLORS); also portraits of men connected with the ‘‘ sport,” 
XVIII. century newspaper announcements of matches, 
etc., etc. 


The plates and other extra material are neatly inlaid, the 


whole forming a volurne of UNUSUAL INTEREST. BOOKS ON 
THIS SUBJECT ARE EXTREMELY RARE, 


548. SPORTING. CocK-FIGHTING. Cocking and its 
Votaries. By A. T. 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in 
full green crushed levant morocco, with emblematical tool- 
ing on back and sides, gilt top, uncut. By RIVIERE. 


(Lond. n.d) 
* A VERY FINE COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 
TWENTY-FIVE PLATES, TEN BEING IN COLOR, and including 
**Cock-Pit Royal, 1796” (in colors); ** Tom, Jerry and Logic 
backing the Sweep, at the Royal Cockpit,” by 1. R. and G, 
CRUIKSHANK (in Colors), 1821; ** The Royal Cockpit in the 
time of Charles the First” (in colors), etce., which includes 
List of Matches and some pages from The Sporting Magazine: 
relative to the subject. 
179 


549. SPORTING. Anecdotes of the Origin and An- 
tiquity of Horse-Racing, from tbe Earliest Times. FIRST 
EDN. With a spirited frontispiece entitled ‘*Contending for 
the Cup.’’ Small 8vo, new three-quarter crimson’ crushed 
ievant morocco, gilt top, by Root. Lond. 1825 


* A FINE Copy of avery rare little book, published at the 
sportsman’s Repository of THoMAS GOSDEN, the famous English 
sportsman-bookbinder, of which Mr. William Loring Andrews 
has written a charming account. 


550. SPORTING. Impressions of a Series of Animals, 
Birds, ete., illustrative of British Field Sports, from a set of 
Silver buttons, drawn by A. Cooper and engraved by John 
Scott. THE RARE FIRST EDN., ON LARGE PAPER, containing ~ 
INDIA PAPER impressions of the series of 16 delicately en- 
graved sporting buttons. 8vo, full ealf, gilt. Lond. 1831 


The work was produced FOR THOMAS GOSDEN, the eminent 
English sportsman-bookbinder, the advertisement following 
the title being signed by him. The work is beautifully ex- 
ecuted; each page was printed within ornamental borders. 


551. SPORTING. [Warburton (R. E. E.).] Hunting 
Songs, Ballads, ete. By R. E. E. W., Esq. THE RARE 
FIRST EDN. With a fine portrait (IN COLORS) of Joseph 
Maiden (master of hounds), and numerous spirited dallusts. 
8vo, newly bound in full polished ealf, extra. gilt top, un- 
cut, with original cloth covers bound in, by RIVIERE. 

Chester, 1834 


* A VERY DIFFICULT BOOK TO PROCURE IN THE FIRST EDITION 
AND A FINECOPY. The author was a most ardent fox-hunter, 
and his hunting songs were mainly written for the Old Tor- 
porley Club meetings. They are of unusual spirit and elegance, 
and include many that are quoted by hunters to this day. 


552. SPORTING. Fox HuntTinc. The Warwickshire 
Hunt, from 1795 to 1836; describing many of the most splen- 
did Runs with these highly celebrated Hounds, under the 
Management of Mr. John Corbet, Lord Middleton, E. J. Shir- 
ley. Mr. Hay, W. P. Thornhill, ete , from Authentic Docu- 
ments. mostly original, with numerous Notes, Anecdotes, 
ete. By Venator (John Cooper). Front. and cuts. 8vo, 


half moroeceo, uncut. Lond. 1837 
* An exceedingly rare book on the ‘‘ Noble Science of Fox- 
Hunting.” 


A SERIES OF SIX SPIRITED ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY 
HABLOT K. BROWNE. 


553. SPORTING. Browne (Hablot Knight—‘‘Phiz’”’). Six 
original Sporting Drawings in Pencil and Water-colors, by 
the famous [llustrator. These beautiful drawings from the 
Artist’s Portfolio represent a hunter's adventures during a 
run with the hounds; horse, dogs, the hunter, and the un- 
derbrush being painted with fine action, color and humor. 


180 


Hach drawing consists of a disc 44 inches in diameter 
mounted in a stiff mat 7x84, the whole series beautifully 
bound into analbum, by RIVIERB, in full dark green levant 
erushed and polished, lettered on front side and on back, 
** SIX ORIGINAL SPORTING DRAWINGS BY PHIZz.”’ Gold-line 


borders on sides, back richly gilt, deep inside dentelle bor- 
ders, all edges gilt, extra. 


* AN EXCEEDINGLY CHOICE COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS, ALL 
FINELY EXECUTED. 


554. SPORTING. Hanbury (Mrs. David). One Day 
from the Diary of a Stag, January 29, 1846. <A series of 
SIX FINELY COLORED PLATES, including ‘‘ Stag Hunting in 
the Olden Time,”’ ‘‘ Stag Crossing the Orwell,’’ ‘‘ Bishop’s 
Hill’ (with the stag leaping over the farmer’s gate), etc., 
with descriptive letterpress. Oblong folio, new three-quarter 
light polished ealf, lettered on the side, gilt top, with origi- 
nal designed front cover bound in. Lond. 1846 


* A sporting book seldom offered for sale. FINE copy. 


AN UNCUT COPY OF STERNE'S ‘‘SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.” 
THE FIRST TO BE OFFERED AT PUBLIC SALE 
IN AMERICA. 


059d. STERNE (LAURENCE). A| Sentimental Jour- 
ney | through | France and Italy. | By | Mr. Yorick. | 
(line) | Vol. I (vol. II) | (2 lines) | Lond.: | Printed for T. 
Becket and P. A. De Hondy, | in the Strand, MDCCLXVIII. 


-2 vols. small 8vo, ORIGINAL HALF BINDING, TOTALLY UNCUT. 


* ONE OF THE FINEST COPIES KNOWN AND OF SUPERLATIVE 
RARITY IN THIS MOST DESIRABLE CONDITION. ONLY TWO OR 
THREE COPIES EXIST IN THE STATE ORIGINALLY ISSUED. En- 
closed in handsome full crushed levant morocco solander cases. 


. 556. STERNE (LAURENCE). Letters of the late Laur- 


ence Sterne, to his most intimate friends, with a fragment 
‘in the Manner of Rabelais, to which is prefixed Memoirs of 


his Life and Family, written by himself and published by 


‘his daughter, Mrs. Medalle. With pretty frontispiece. 


3 vol. 12mo, handsomely bound in full dark blue morocco, 


pretty gold backs, gilt edges. Lond. 1775 


* A very beautiful copy in handsome binding by Bedford. 
SCARCE. 


181 


THE WRITINGS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 


An Unusual Collection, including ‘‘ The Pentland Rising,” 
‘The Story of a Lie,”’ ‘‘Catriona’’ (Autograph Presenta- 
tion Copy). The Edinburgh Edition of His Works, etc. 


A VERY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF 
STEVENSON’S FIRST PUBLICATION. 


557. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). The Pentland 
Rising; a Page of History, 1666. THE RARE FIRST EDN. 
12mo, original wrappers. FINE COPY. Edinburgh, 1866 


* STEVENSON’S FIRST PUBLICATION AND VERY RARE, It was 
written by him when barely 16 years of age, the outcome of 
the interest’ taken by him in the stories of the Covenanters 
that he had learned in his early childhood, from his nurse 
Alison Cunningham. Only a small number were privately 
printed, the greater number of which were bought up by his 
father, and, it is said, destroyed. 

Enclosed in brown crushed levant morocco solander case, 
with inner protecting cover of silk. 


A FINE SET IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, UNCUT. 


558. [STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS).] The Edin- 
burgh University Magazine. Parts 1 to 4 (ALL ISSUED). 
4 parts, 8vo, original wrappers, with the advertisements, 
uncut. Enclosed in blue crushed levant morocco solander 
case, with inner protecting cover of blue silk. 

Edinburgh, 1871 


* UNUSUALLY FINE SET. VERY RARE. The numbers con- 
tain six original contributions by Stevenson, including ‘* Phil- 
osophy of Umbrellas,” ‘‘ Old Scotch Gardener,” etc. The au- 
thorship of the contributions—which are anonymous—were 
designated by G. Stronach, Esq , a fellow student, anda well- 
known authority on Scottish history, etc. 


THE GENUINE ISSUE, INITIALLED BY STEVENSON. 


559. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). A Most Inter- 
esting Copy of the ‘‘ Charity Bazaar: an Allegorical Dia- 
logue.’’ Leaflet of 4 pp. 4to, signed on p. 4 IN AUTHOR’S 
“AUTOGRAPH, ‘“‘R. L. S.’? With this is an autograph letter 
signed by ‘‘A. Ferguson,’ stating that, ‘‘ This paper was 
given to me at the Charity Bazaar, for which it was writ- 
‘ten, by R. L. Stevenson’s mother.’’ Accompanying the 
above 7s a fine half-length cabinet photographic portrait of 
Stevenson. The whole enclosed within a beautifully made 
blue crushed levant morocco solander case, contents let- 
tered. n. d. [Edinburgh, 186%] 


* Stevenson was only eighteen when he wrote this playful 
contribution towards a charitable function. 

Some copies are in existence without the initials, they are 
‘‘remainders.”’ 


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560. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). Some College 
Memories. FIRST EDN. Vignette portrait of Professor 
Leland on title, and repeated on cover. Feap. 8vo, in the 
original purple-grey printed cover, uncut. Edinburgh: 
Privately printed for Members of the University Union 
Committee, 1886. 

* VERY RARE. 


561. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). Thomas Steven- 
son, Civil Engineer. FIRST EDN. 12mo, blue printed cover. 
For private distribution. 1887 

* A very small number printed of this tribute to the memory 
of his father. Contains a curious reference to the effect that 


the subject of the memoir “delighted specially in sunflowers 
long before the days of Mr. Wilde.” 


562. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). On the Thermal 
Influence of Forests. FIRST EDN. 8vo, sewed, in the origi- 
nal blue printed cover. Printed’ by Neill, Edinburgh, for 
private circulation only, 1873. 

-* An extremely limited number done; and intended exclu- 
sively for private friends. 
THE GENUINE FIRST ISSUE, which does not contain ‘‘ From 
the Proceedings,” etc., on title. 


STEVENSON’S OWN COPY, WITH HIS MANUSCRIPT COR- 
RECTIONS. 


563. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS), anD HENLEY 
(W. E.). Deacon Brodie; or, The Double Life, a Melo- 
drama, founded on facts. THE RARE FIRST EDN. Post 8vo, 
in the original printed cover. [Edinburgh], 1880 

*STEVENSON’S OWN COPY, with autograph corrections made by 
himself. These are in several places; two of them queries at- 
tached to passages concerning which it would seem Stevenson 
had an idea they might be improved in a subsequent edition, 
which never appeared, separately. 


THE RARE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION OF A STEVENSON 
RARITY. 


564. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). The Story of a 
Lie. FIRST PUBLISHED EDN. 12mo, bound in red watered 
silk, gilt edges. | Lond. 1882 

* EXTREMELY RARE. ‘‘ The Story of a Lie” was presented 
for issue in 1882, but in consequence of a dispute which arose 
with the proposed publishers upon the question of copyright, 
the project was abandoned and the BOOK WITHDRAWN BEFORE 
PUBLICATION. The work was never ‘‘made up,” and the few 
copies that have survived are merely such sets of the sheets as 
chanced to have been preserved by the publishers and printers. 
—PRIDEAUX. 

In case, with red morocco back. 


565. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). Ticonderoga. 
FIRST EDN. 4to, original parchment, uncut. 
| Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1887 
* EXTREMELY RARE. Only 50 copies were printed and pri- 
vately distributed in accordance with the author's instructions. 
NO COPIES WERE OFFERED FOR SALE. 


183 


AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY OF STEVENSON’S 
“CATRIONA.” 


566. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). Catriona: a 
Sequel to ‘‘ Kidnapped.”’ FIRSTEDN. 12mo, original cloth. 
uncut. Lond. 1893 


*A PRESENTATINN COPY FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNUSUAL IN- 
TEREST, BEING TO HIS VAILIMA HOST, BAZETT M. HAGGARD. 

The presentation inscription is as follows: 

“ Bazett M. Haggard, from his friend Robert Louis Steven- 
son. Vailima, Nov., 1898.” 


Mr. Haggard lived at Vailima and Stevenson was his guest. 
Writing to the Countess of Jersey, a few months before the 
above was presented to Mr. Haggard, Stevenson says... ‘ we 
(Stevenson and the Countess of Jersey) constantly met in the 
hospitable abode of our host Mr, Bazett Haggard,”’ ete. 

AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPIES OF STEVENSON’S WRITINGS. 
SIGNED IN FULL ARE RARELY OFFERED FOR SALE. 

Enclosed in full blue crushed levant morocco solander case, 
with inner protecting cover of blue silk. 


THE FAMOUS EDINBURGH EDITION OF STEVENSON, 


567. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). FINE set oF 
THE MAGNIFICENT EDINBURGH EDITION, COMPLETE WORKS, 
BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED IN LARGE TYPE ON CHOICE PAPER BY 
Messrs. T. & A. CONSTABLE, Including the two volumes of 
letters recently published and his Life, by Graham Balfour, 
together 32 volumes. 8vo, cloth, gilt tops, uncut. Equal to 
new. Edinburgh, 1895-99 


*A clean and beautiful set of the best library edition, con- 
taining: 

Biography.—Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin and a Family of En- 
gineers, 1 vol.; Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Graham Bal- 
four, 2 vols. 

Correspondence.—Vailima Letters, 1 vol. 

Letters.—To his family and friends, selected and edited with 
notes and instruction by Sidney Colvin, 2 vols. 

Miscellanies.—Notes on Edinburgh; Memories and Portraits; 
Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Virginibusque Puerisque; 
Later Essays; Juvenilia Lay Morals; Prayers; Moral Emblems, 
ete., 5 vols. 

Drama.—Deacon Brodie; Beau Austin; Admiral Guinea; Ma- 
caire, 1 vol. 

Poetry.—A Child’s Garden; Underwoods; Songs of Travel; 
Ballads, 1 vol. 

History.—A Footnote in History; Letters from Samoa, 1 vol. 

Travels and Excursions.—Inland Voyage; Travels with a Don- 
key; Amateur Emigrant; Pacific Capitals; Silverado Squatters; 
In the South Seas, 3 vols. 

Romances.—Treasure Island; Prince Otto; Black Arrow; 
Catriona; Kidnapped; Master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermis- 
ton; St. Ives, ete., 8 vols. 

South Sea Yarns.—The Wrecker; Island Nights’ Entertain- 
ments; The Ebb Tide, 3 vols. 

Tales and Fantasies—Arabian Nights; Story of a Lie; 
Pavilion on the Links; New Arabian Nights; Dr. Jekyll and 
Mr. Hyde; The Merry Men; John Nicholson; The Wrong Box; 
Fables, 4 vols. 


184 


568. STRICKLAND (AGNES). Lives of the Queens of 
England from the Norman Conquest, 12 vols. 1842-47; 
Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses, 1859, 
8 vols.; Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, 2 vols., 1854; Lives 
of the Bachelor Kings of England, 1861; Historic Scenes and 
Poetic Fancies, 1850. Portraits. Together 24 vols. 12mo, 
three-quarter blue ealf, gilt tops. Lond. 1842-61 


*UNUSUALLY FINE copy of Strickland’s works, seldom offered 
for sale in collected form. The Lives of the Queens of Scotland 
is scarce. 


SUCKLING’S FRAGMENTA AUREA, FIRST EDITION, WITH 
THE BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT BY WILLIAM MARSHALL. 


569. SUCKLING (SIR JOHN). Fragmenta Aurea; a 
Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces (sic), written by 
Sir John Syekling, and published by a Friend to perpetuate 
his Memory. Printed by his owne Copies. THE EXCESSIVELY 
RARE FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, with brilliant example of the 


beautiful portrait of the author, by William Marshall. 


Lond.: Printed for ‘Humphrey Mosley 
. in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1646 
*A VERY FINE Copy, being bound full lemon crushed levant 
morocco, with broad borders containing scrolls in blind with 
gold fleurons, on a richly powdered ground, centre panel with 
gold and blind line border, with small scrolls in corner on dotted 
gilt ground, lettering in centre, by RIVIERE AND Son. This is 
the first edition of the FIRST COLLECTION OF SUCKLING’S WoRKS, 
containing his Poems, Letters and the Plays ‘‘ Aglaura’’ (having 
in addition the rewritten fifth act), ‘‘The Goblins’’ and ‘‘ Bren- 
noralt,’’ and ‘‘An Account of Religion by Reason’’ (an anto- 
Socinian Tract). 
THIS COPY IS ONE OF THE FINEST IN EXISTENCE. 


Re cue COPY HAVING FIVE OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 
IN COLOR BY JOHN LEECH INSERTED. 

570. SURTEES (ROBERT SMITH). Handley Cross; 
or, Mr. Jorrocks’s Hunt. By the author of Mr. Sponge’s 
“Sporting Tour,’’ ete. THe Rare First EpN. With 17 en- 
gravings on steel and 84 on wood by John Leech. Tall 8vo, 
full olive levant, crushed and polished, back richly gold-tooled 
between raised bands, sides gold-line bordered, scarlet silk ends 
and flies, heavily tooled inside borders, tops gilt, uncut, origi- 


nal covers bound in, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1854 


* INSERTED ARE FIVE SIGNED ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN COLOR 
FOR THIS BOOK BY JOHN LEECH: P. 42, ‘‘ DOLEFUL BEGINS TO 


FEEL UNEASY;’’ P. 44, ‘‘ THE MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES 
MOUNTED ;’’ P. 57, ‘MR, JORROCKS STARTING FOR ‘THE CUT ME 
DOWN CouNTRIES ; yo P. 86. ‘‘ ’oW ARE YE ALL?’’ Pp. 107, ‘‘ Mr. 


JORROCKS (LOQ.) CoME HuP! I SAY, YOU UGLY BEAST! ” 

THE DRAWINGS ARE CAREFULLY INLAID, FULL-PAGE SIZE; AND 
VARY IN MINOR DETAILS FROM THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE BOOK. 
THEY RANK AMONG THE MOST EXCELLENT EXAMPLES OF THE 
STYLE OF THIS GREAT BRITISH ILLUSTRATOR. 


[See Reproduction. ] 
185 


571. SWIFT (JONATHAN). Gu.uiver TrAvets. Travels 
into Several Remote Nations of the World, in four parts, by 
Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon and then a Captain of Sev- 
eral Ships. With brilliant impression of the portrait en- 
graved by Sheppard, of the 4 maps and plate. 4 parts in 2 
vols. 8vo, full brown crushed levant morocco extra, 5 lines gilt 
borders on the sides, gilt back and inside borders, silk linings, 
gilt edges, by ZAEHNSDORF. 

Lond.: Printed for Benjamin Molte, 1726 

* THE RARE FIRST ISSUE, without the words ‘‘ Volume II’’ on 

the title-page of the second volume, and with different pagina- 

tion and seven series of signatures in each part, but with the 

portrait in second state as usual. A VERY FINE AND UNUSUALLY 
TALL COPY. 


572. SWIFT (JONATHAN). The Works of Jonathan 
Swift. Arranged by Thomas Sheridan with Notes by John 
Nichols. Portrait. 19 vols., 8vo, full calf, richly tooled. 

Lond. 1801 


* CHOICE Set of this famous old lbrary edition, in a con- 
temporary binding. 
SCARCE in this condition. 


THE SUPPRESSED FIRST EDITION. 


573. SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES). Poems 
and Ballads. First EpN. 12mo, original cloth, uncut, and 


with the eight pages of advertisements. 
Lond.: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1866 


* FINE COPY, SUPPRESSED AND EXTREMELY SCARCE. Some 
copies exist with Hotten’s title-page, which are nearly always 
catalogued as ‘‘first edition, with Hotten’s title-page.’’ The 
edition with the Moxon title-page is, however, the genuine first 
issue, and contains the two stanzas of ‘‘Felise’’ on page 22, 
printed in a different type from that used for the balance of the 
work. The cloth covers contain the publishers’ cipher on the 
front. The original appearance of ‘‘Poems and Ballads’’ was 
met by such a whirlwind of abuse and hysterical criticism, that 
the publishers explained that they were unaware of the nature 
of the poems they had laid before the public, and suppressed 
the edition before it got into general circulation. 


TENNYSON’S COPY. ANNOTATED THROUGHOUT IN HIS 
AUTOGRAPH. : 


574. [TENNYSON (ALFRED).|] Thueydidis de Bello 
Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Ex recensione em- 

manuelis Bekkeri. Ouedund Scholia Greeea et Dukeri. Was- 
slique Annotationes. 4 vols. 8vo, boards, uneut. Oxford, 1821 


* ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON’S OWN COPY, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH 
SIGNATURE ‘‘A. Tennyson, Somersby, Lincolnshire’? AND THE 
INITIALS ‘‘B, P, L. O. T.’? ON THE FIRST FLY-LEAF OF VOLUME 
IIT; AND OVER 2,000 MARGINAL AND INTERLINEAR NOTES IN VOLS. 
I, II anv III, ALL IN HIS HANDWRITING, MANY VERY EXTENSIVE, 
MOSTLY TAKEN FROM GOTTLEBERUS, BAVERUS, Hopps, HoBBEs, 
REISK, BEKKER, AND OTHER CELEBRATED GREEK SCHOLARS; THE 
OTHER NOTES BEING TENNYSON’S OWN TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK 


186 


[SURTEES. 


HANDLEY Cross. ONE OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 
BY JOHN LEECH. SEE No. 570.] 


By 


ea 


WORDS IN ENGLISH OR IN LATIN, OR SHORT COMMENTARIES TO 
SOME OF THE DIFFICULT PASSAGES, NEARLY ALL VERY INTEREST- 
ING, INCLUDING ALSO A SMALL MAP OF PELOPONXZUS DRAWN 
EVIDENTLY BY HIS OWN HAND ON THE UPPER MARGIN OF P. 72 


oF Vou. I. 
The following Extract from a letter of the late owner, is of 
great interest: ‘‘I give below as accurate a descripiton of the 


book as I can. I may say that I bought it about 1889 or 1888 
at a sale at Thorpe Hall, Lincolnshire, England, of the effects 
of Mr. Fyttche, a cousin, I believe, of Tennyson. When I re- 
turned home to Great Grimsby, where I was then living, I looked 
through the volumes and found that the fly-leaf of the first vol- 
uMe was missing. But in the fly-leaf of the second was written 
‘Alfred Tennyson, Somersby, Lincolnshire.’ I concluded that 
Tennyson, probably when a student at Cambridge, bought the 
book at second hand, and finding the former owner’s name on 
the fly-leaf of the first volume, tore it out and wrote his own 
name on the fly-leaf of the second volume. The first three vol- 
umes are annotated in the same (Tennyson’s) handwriting, the 
first very copiously ... There is as much of Tennyson’s hand- 
writing as would fill a small pamphlet. The volumes are bound in) 
boards only, but they are (except the binding) in perfect order 
and preservation. I showed the book at once to Mr. Ernest 
Grange, a member of the legal firm of Grange & Son, Great 
Grimsby, who were at the time Tennyson’s solicitor in connec- 
tion with his Lincolnshire property. He assured me that there 
could be no doubt whatever that the handwriting was all Tenny- 
son’s, that in the annotations being evidently the same as that 
on the fly-leaf, and about the identity of that he was absolutely 
certain. ’’ 

ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING TENNYSON ITEMS EVER OF- 
FERED FOR SALE AND AT THE SAME TIME A PROOF OF THE SCHOLAR- 
SHIP OF THE GREAT ENGLISH POET, IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS. 


WITH AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS BY TENNSYSON. 


575. TENNYSON (ALFRED). Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. 
First EpN. WitH CoRRECTIONS IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF TENNY- 
sON. 12mo, original calf, marbled edges. Lond. 1830 

* "his little volume was in the Library of W. H. Thompson, 
late Master of Trinity College, and bears his bookplate. Also 
there are interesting notes made by Thompson on the fly-leaf 
relative to the book and to Tennyson, and stating when and 
where Tennyson was at the time he made the corrections noted 
above, which much enhance the interest in the little volume. 

The pen-and-ink alterations were made by Tennsyson when 
visiting Cambridge, in the Autumn, 1834, and possibly in the 
Spring of 1835. ‘‘In my rooms in the Cloister, 1st Floor near- 
est the Master-Lodge, W. H. T. 1865.’’ (MS. Note.) These 
are the first poems published with the Author’s name. 

In lettered drop-case of red morocco by RIVIERE. 


576. TENNYSON (ALFRED). Poems. In Two Volumes. 
2 vols. 12mo, finely bound by Atrrep Marruews, in full 
erimson crushed levant morocco, wide inside gilt borders, gilt 
tops, UNCUT. Lond.: Moxon, 1842 
. * THE FOOTE COPY, WITH FINE BOOKPLATE BY FRENCH IN EACH 

VOLUME. The second volume, with two exceptions, consists of 
poems previously unpublished. The remaining poems, reprinted 
from the edition of 1833, were much altered and 7 new pieces 
added to the first volume. 


187 


577. TENNYSON (ALFRED). The Princess: A Medley. 
With 26 dlustrations engraved on wood by Dalziel, Green, 
Thomas & E. Williams, from drawings by Daniel "Maclise. 
8vo, ELABORATELY BOUND IN FULL RED LEVANT EXTRA, WITH A 
VERY BEAUTIFUL AND ARTISTIC DESIGN IN GOLD AND BLIND TOOL- 
ING, CILT EDGES, BY RIVIERE. Lond.: Moxon, 1860 


*The engravings are full of charm. The binding in its rich- 
ness of color and gold tooling makes a fit setting for the poem. 
It is one of Riviere’s beautiful specimens. 


078. TENNYSON (ALFRED). The Passing of Arthur. 
12mo, original printed wrappers. 
Lond.: Macmillan & Co., 1884 


* FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Very scarce, as only a fine copies 
were printed for examination purposes. 


WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 


First Editions of his Writings, Original Drawings by him, 
and Books bearing his Autograph and Manuscript 
Notes. A Collection of the Highest Importance. 


THACKERAY’S COPY, WITH HIS STAMP AND MANUSCRIPT 
NOTES BY HIM. 


579. [THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). |] The 
Spectator. The original single sheet, daily issue, from Num- 
ber 1, March 1, 1711, to Number 200, October 19, 1711 (except 
Numbers 149 and 155), In 1 vol. folio, old calf, loose in 
covers. THACKERAY’S COPY, WITH HIS EMBOSSED STAMP ON 
FIRST LEAF AND WITH A FEW MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY HIM. In 
case. [Lond. 1711] 


* ASIDE FROM THE ASSOCIATION INTEREST, THIS VOLUME IS 
ONE TO ATTRACT THE COLLECTOR. A LONG SERIES OF ‘‘ THE 
SPECTATOR’? IN THE ORIGINAL NUMBERS IS RARELY MET WITH. 

THIS VOLUME IS FROM THE THOMAS J. MCKEE LIBRARY. 


ONE OF THACKERAY’S SCHOOL BOOKS, USED BY HIM WHEN 
AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND BEARING 
HIS AUTOGRAPH. 


580. THACKERAY’S COPY, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH. 
Cary’s Traveller’s Companion; or, A Delineation of the Turn- 
pike Roads of England and Wales, shewing the immediate 
Rout (sic) to every Market and Borough Town throughout 
the Kingdom. With numerous colored maps. 12mo, original 
sheep. Lond. 17oh 


* WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY’S COPY, WITH HIS AUTO- 
GRAPH :—‘‘W. M. Thackeray, Trin. Coll. Cambridge. fs: 
The novelist was at this college from 1829 to 1830, where he 


188 


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formed the friendship of many men who were later in life de- 
stined to become famous, including Tennyson, Fitzgerald, Sped- 
ding and others. It was here that he did his most noted early 
work, ‘‘The Snob.’’ 


AN ASSOCIATION ITEM OF RARE INTEREST, BUT FEW SUCH EARLY 
SPECIMENS BEING KNOWN. 


581. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). The 
Book of Snobs. First EDN. With allusts. by the author. 
12mo, original green wrappers, with the advertisements. 

Lond.: ‘‘Punch’’ Office, 1848 
* EXREMELY RARE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. The front 
wrapper, with an illustration on it, forms an important part of 


the book. This illustration has never beeen reprinted. The 
French copy in binding sold for $135.00. 


AN IMPORTANT THACKERAY MANUSCRIPT. 


582. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). Avrto- 
GRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a portion of Mr. YELLOWPLUSH’S AJEW. 
From the Memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush. 31 lines on 1 
page, folio (one corner torn). 

‘Well, being a Whig, it’s the fashn, as you know, to reseave 
littery pipple; and accordingly, at dinner, tother day, whose 
name do you think I had to hollar out on the fust landing- 
place about a wick ago? After several dukes and markises 
had been enounced, a very gentell fly drives up to our doar, 
and out steps two gentlemen. One was pail, and wor spek- 
tickles, a wig, and a white neckcloth. The other was slim with 
a hook nose, a pail fase, a small waist; a pare of falling should- 
ers, a tight coat, and a catarack of black satting tumbling out 
of his busm.... ‘What name, sir?’ says I, to the old genlmn. 
‘Name!—a! now, you thief o’ the wurrld,’ says he, ‘do you 
pretind nat to know me? Say it’s the Cabinet Cyclo—no, I 
mane the Litherary Chran—psha!—bluthanowns!—say it’s 
DocrHor DiocLESIAN LarNER—I think he’ll know me now— 
ay, Nid?’ ... . ‘Doctor Dioclesius Larner!’ says I. ‘Doctor 
ArHaANasius LARDNER!’ says Greville Fitz-Roy, our secknd 
footman, on the fust landing-place. Docror Ienatius Loy- 
ou!’ says the groom of the chambers; and in the little genlmn 


Mellie. ks. ° 
* A PINE AND EARLY MANUSCRIPT IN THACKERAY ’S CHARAC- 
TERISTIC HANDWRITING. 


UNIQUE COPY HAVING ONE OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 
IN COLOR BY THACKERAY INSERTED. 

583. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). Our 
Street, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. FIRST EDN. Small square 
8vo, beautifully bound by RIVIERE in full crushed and pol- 
ished crimson levant, gold-line borders on sides, back 


189 


richly gold tooled between raised bands, inside borders 
finely gold tooled, all edges gilt extra. Lond. 1848 


* Inserted, opposite illustration to face p. 23, IS THE ORIGI- 
NAL DRAWING BY THACKERAY: ‘‘A Street Ceremony,” neatly 
inlaid. It is full-page size, and shows that a few deviations 
were made by the engraver, the original being two figures 
richer tkan the copy; an old gentleman and a nurse-maid 
standing in the background. Nothing more typical of Thacke- 
ray’s drawing could be found. 

A BEAUTIFUL COPY, containing the leaf of advertisement. 


084. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). The 
History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes; His 
Friends and His Greatest Enemy. With illusts. on steel 
and wood by the Author. 2 vols. in the original 24 monthly 
parts in yellow wrappers, uncut, as issued. 

Lond.: Bradbury & Evans, 1848-50 


* FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS AS ISSUED. Very 
rare in this condition, with 47 full-page etchings and many 
woodcuts by the Author. Next to ‘‘ Vanity Fair” this is the 
scarcest Thackeray book issued in original parts. 


A FINE THACKERAY PEN-AND-INK SKETCH, BEING ONE OF 
THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS TO ‘“ PENDENNIS.” 


585. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). THE 
ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWING ‘‘ FANNY’S NEW PHYSI- 
CIAN,’’ EXECUTED FOR ‘‘ PENDENNIS ”’ (p. 204, Vol. 2), THE 
DRAWING IS MORE COMPLETE IN DETAIL THAN THE FINISHED 
PLATE, AND CONTAINS SEVERAL FEATURES THAT ARE NOT IN 
THE PRINTED PLATE, FOREMOST AMONG THEM BEING THE 
DOCTOR’S SILK HAT. 


* THACKERAY DRAWINGS OF SUCH IMPORTANCE AS THE ABOVE 
ARE EXTREMELY RARE. 


086. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). ORIGI- 
NAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWING BY THACKERAY. Probably an 
experimental sketch of ‘‘ Miss Crawley’ as described in 
‘“VANITY FAIR.’’ 16mo, mounted on 4to card. SIGNED 
WITH THACKERAY’S MONOGRAM. In mat. 


087.. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). ORIGI- 
NAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWING BY THACKERAY evidently por- 
traying an exaggerated attitude and the fantastic dress of 
‘* Mr. Foker,’’ a character in ‘‘ Pendennis.’”’ 16mo, mounted 
on 4to ecard. In mat. SIGNED IN THE LOWER CORNER WITH 
THACKERAY’S MONOGRAM. 


588. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). ORIGI- 
NAL PEN-AND-INK PORTRAIT OF THACKERAY BY HIMSELF, 
showing him striding along with his hands in his pockets, 
his coat buttoned tightly and a muffler around his neck. 
18mo. SIGNED WITH HIS MONOGRAM IN THE LOWER CORNER. 
In mat. 

* A very characteristic sketch. 


190 


COMPLETE SET, ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 


589. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). Christ- 
mas books. Complete set of FIRST EDITIONS, every volume 
being the FIRST ISSUB, as follows: 


Mrs. Perkin’s Ball, by M. A. Titmarsh. 22 colored plates. 


1847 

. Our Street. 16 full-page colored plates by the author. 
4 1848 
; Dr. Birch, and his Young Friends. 6 colored plates by 
; the author, and illustrated and plain titles. 1849 
| The Kickleburys on the Rhine. J0 colored illustrations 
by the author. 1850 

Rebecca and Rowena. A Romance. §& full-page colored 

plates by Richard Doyle. 1850 


The Rose and the Ring; or, the History of Prince Giglio 
and Prince Bulbo. 48 woodcuts by the author. 1855 


Together 6 vols., square 8vo and 12mo, newly and hand- 
somely bound in full red crushed levant morocco, gilt edges, 
by RIVIERE. Lond. 1848-55 


* An unusually fine and complete set, with the original adver- 
tisements and pictorial board covers bound in. 


- 590. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). Set of 
the Octavo Novels, with the great number of etched plates, 
and cuts on the text by the author, and by Richard Doyle: 
ALL FIRST EDNS. 7 vols. 8vo, original cloth, uniform, un- 
cut. Lond. 1848-59 
* Vanity Fair. 40 plates and many woodcuts by the author, 
1848; History of Pendennis; engraved titles. 46 plates and 
many woodcuts by the author, 2 vols., 1849-50; The Newcomes, 
engraved titles, 46 plates, and many woodcuts, by Richard 
Doyle, 2 vols. 1855; The Virginians, engraved titles, 46 plates, 
and many woodcuts by the author; 2 vols., 1858-9, IN BEAUTI- 

FUL CONDITION. 


A FINE COPY OF THACKERAY’S ‘‘ESMOND” IN ORIGINAL 
CLOTH, UNCUT. 


591. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). History 
of Henry Esmond, a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty 
~Q. Anne, written by himself. THE SCARCE FIRST EDN. 3 


vols. 12mo, original cloth, uncut, with the paper labels. 
Lond.: Smith, Elder & Co., 1852 


* Fine copy. One of the most difficult of Thackeray’s first 
editions to procure in really desirable condition. This copy 
contains all three half-titles, which read ‘‘ Esmond, a Story of 
Queen Anne's Reign, by W. M. Thackeray, author of Vanity 
Fair, ‘‘ Pendennis,” etc., and which it will be seen are different 
to the titles. 

+91 


A THACKERAY RARITY IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, 
UNCUT: 


592. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). An 
Interesting Event. By M. A. Titmarsh. THE VERY RARE 
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. 12mo, as issued, uncut, pp. 16. 

Lond. 1849 


* ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE PAMPHLETS OF THACKERAY, 
The work (a novelette) was originally published in The Keep- 
sake, in 1849. 

In handsome red crushed levant morocco solander case, with 
inner protecting cover of red silk. 


ONE OF THE THACKERAY CHRISTMAS BOOKS, CONTAINING 
AN ORIGINAL COLORED DRAWING BY DOYLE. 


593. THACKKRAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). Rebec- 
ca and Rowena. A Romance upon Romance. By Mr. M. 
A. Titmarsh. With dlustrations by Richard Doyle. FIRst 
EDN. Square 8vo, bound by RIVIERE, in full crushed and 
polished dark green levant, double gold-line border on sides, 
panel back, raised binds, inside dentelle borders, gilt top, 
extra, original paper covers and leaf of advertisements 
bound in. Lond. 1850 

* A FULL-PAGE SIGNED DRAWING IN COLORS BY RICHARD 


DOYLE, the original from which the illustration opposite Dare 
76 was engraved, is inserted opposite its engraving. 


594. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). The 
Newcomes. Memoirs of a most Respectable Family. Edited 
by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. With dllusts. on steel and wood 
by Richard Doyle. 2 vols. in the 24 monthly numbers in 
original yellow wrappers, as issued, uncut. 

Lond.: Bradbury & Evans, 1853-1855 


* FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS AS ISSUED. VERY 
RARE IN THIS CONDITION. 


A THACKERAY RARITY IN COLLECTOR’S CONDITION, WITH 
THE LEAF OF LETTERPRESS THAT IS 
USUALLY MISSING. 


095. [THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE).] ‘‘Gor- 
illa Fight. He Awoke the next Morning and found Himself 
Famous.’’ Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket. Ob- 
long 4to, IN THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS, designed by 
LANDSEER, with HALF CLOTH BACK. [Lond., ca. 1860] 


“ONE OF THE RAREST AND LEAST KNOWN OF THACKERAY 
ITEMS. THIS COPY CONTAINS THE EXCESSIVELY RARE LEAF OF 
TEXT PRECEDING THE ILLUSTRATIONS, WHICH IS NEARLY ALWAYS 
MISSING. It is entitled ‘‘ Account of the Milling-Match between 
Entellus and Dares,’’ ‘‘translated from the Fifth Book of the 


192 


Aeneid,’’ ‘‘By One of the Fancy.’’ It also contains FOUR 
SPIRITED ETCHINGS, cleverly caricaturing incidents of the fight 
and the demeanour of the crowd. The only ditsinguishable 
personages in the crowd ARE Sir Epwarp LANDSEER, ‘‘ Mr. 
PUNCH,’’ WITH THACKERAY TOWERING ABOVE THEM. The work 
is a most severe pictorial satire on the brutalities of the most 
celebrated of international prize-fights—that between Heenan 
and Sayers which took place at Farnborough on April 16th, 
1860. The principals and seconds are probably the work of 
Landseer, AND THE CROWD SKETCHES BY THACKERAY. 

IN A RECENT BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE HE CLAIMS THAT THE 
LEAF OF TEXT WAS WRITTEN BY THACKERAY. 

The Mynderse copy was erroneously catalogued as lacking 
a plate, it was, however, complete, the five plates being inclusive 
of the outside wrapper. 

In new cloth ease, lettered on the side. 


FINE SET OF THE COLLECTED EDITION. 


596. THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). Works 
of Thackeray. Complete in 24 vols. With all the original 
illusts. by the Author, Doyle, etc. 8vo, in the original green 
decorated cloth, uncut. 


Lond.: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869, ete. 


597. TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE. Complete 
set of this famous old Magazine, with its HUNDREDS OF TETE-A- 
TETE PORTRAITS, besides numerous other RARE PORTRAITS, CARI- 
CATURES, VIEWS, etc. From Vol. 1, 1769, to Vol. 28, 1796, in- 
clusive (text believed to be complete, about a half dozen plates 
of minor importance missing, and a few plates torn). 28 vols. - 
8vo, old calf and half calf, not uniform. Lond. 1769-1796 


* THERE IS NO RECORD IN Mr. LIVINGSTON’S WORK OF THE 
SALE OF ANY SET OF THIS MAGAZINE, COMPRISING MORE THAN 
25 VOLS., THOSE FoR 1794, 1795, AND 1796, BEING EXTREMELY 
RARE. He records an incomplete set as selling for $70—A few 
only of the téte-a-tétes can be named here: Horace Walpole, 
Maria Gunning, Edmund Burke, Lord George Sackville, Adm. 
Keppel, Geo. Whitefield, Kitty Clive, Gen. Amherst, Lord North, 
Silas Deane, Gen. Tarleton, Henry Woodward, Perdita Robinson, 
Gen. Guy Carleton, Lunardi, Mrs. Jordan, J. G. Holman, Alder- 
man Boydell, Sir Howe, Geo. Anne Bellamy, Richard Daly, 
ete. Iv IS WELL KNOWN THAT THE LATE PauL L. ForD WAS 
ENGAGED IN DECIPHERING THE IDENTITY OF THESE PORTRAITS, 
WITH A VIEW TO THE PUBLICATION OF A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT, 
BUT IS WAS EVIDENTLY LEFT INCOMPLETE AT HIS DEATH. Among 
the numerous other portraits to be found in the work are: De: 
Franklin, Thomas Paine (2), C. J. Fox, Darley, the Singer, Mrs. 
Siddons (2), Mr. King as Sir Peter Teazle, J. P. ‘Kemble, Gar- 
rick, Countess DuBarry, Mrs. Yates and Mrs. Abington, Mrs. 
Fitzherbert, Chas. Dibdin, Mrs. Jordan, Humphreys the Pugilist, 
Mr. Munden, Marie Antoinette, Dr. Priestly and many others. 
Tt also contains the RARE VIEWS or NEw YorK CITY, AND THE 
TROOPS ON Li. I. SHORE, and the FOLDING PLAN OF BosToN AND 
VICINITY (1776). There is a wealth of material in the volumes 
relating to AMERICA and the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 


193 


IN PARTS AS ISSUED, AND CONTAINING ONE OF THE 
ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS BY 
H. K. BROWNE—‘‘ Puiz.’’ 


598. TROLLOPE (ANTHONY). Can You Forgive Her. 
First EDN. With illusts. (by ‘‘Phiz,’’ etc.) 2 vols. 8vo, IN 
THE ORIGINAL PARTS, UNCUT, and with the wrappers and ad- 
vertisements. Lond. 1865 


* UNIQUE COPY OF ONE OF TROLLOPE’S MOST FAMOUS STORIES, 
CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL SIGNED PENCIL DRAWING BY H. K. 
Browne, ‘‘ Would you mind shutting the Window,’’ in Part I. 

Enclosed in two full green crushed levant morocco solander 
cases with inner protecing covers of green silk. 


599. ol Erbe: (MARIO). Mon Onele Barbassou. 40 
etchings by Paul Avril. Royal 8vo, full brown 

crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt inside borders, by KAUFF- 
MANN. In ease. Paris, 1884 


* ONE OF 125 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPAN PAPER, with a set of 
the etchings printed separately and the name of the artist in 
dry point. 


FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF RABELAIS, 


600. URQUHART (SIR THOMAS). The Flrst Book of 
the Works of Francis Rabelais, containing five books, 
heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargautua and his Sonne 
Pantagruel, together with the Pantagrueline prognostica- 
tion, the Oracle of the Divine Bachue, and Response of the 
Bottle; hereunto are annexed the navigations unto the 
sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedests, as likewise the 
Philosophical cream with a Limosm Epistle faithfully trans- 
lated into English. Lond., for Richard Baddeley, 1653.— 
The Second Book treating of the Heroick Deeds and Say- 
ings of the good Pantagruel, ib., 1653.—The Third Book, 
containing the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel, the son of Gar- 
gautua, never before printed. Lond., for Richard Baldwin, 
1693.—Pantagruel’s Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle, 
being the Fourth and Fifth Books of the Works of Francis 
Rabelais, with the Pantagruelian Prognostication, and other 
pieces in verse and prose by that author; also his Historical 
letters compleating all his Works that are extant, never 
before printed in English, done out of French by Mr. 
Motteux, 2 vols. ib., 1694. Together 5 vols. 8vo, full 
‘brown levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. __ 


Lond. 1653-94 


* THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF RABELAIS, AND STILL 
CONSIDERED THE STANDARD TEXT. See also Douce’s * Illustra- 
tions of Shakespeare.” Vol. ll, p. 281. COMPLETE SETS LIKE 
THE ABOVE ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE; one sold at Sotheby's in 
in 1901 for £55. 10s. 

194 


601. NL OLTAIRE [F. AROUET DE]. La Pucelle; or, 

The Maid of Orleans. A Poem, in xxi Cantos, 

from the French of M. de Voltaire, by Lady Charleville, 

with theauthor’s Preface and Original Notes. 2 vols. 8vo, 
old calf gilt. FINE Copy. EXTREMELY RARE. 

Dublin: Privately printed, 1796 


* Only 50 copies of this translation are said to have been dis- 
tributed. The remainder of the impression was destroyed in 
consequence of the freedom of the translation. 


602. VOLTAIRE (F. AROUET DE). La Pucelle @ 
Orléans. Hngraved portrait and 21 pretty head vignettes, 
engraved afler Duplessis- Bertaux, and taken from Cazin’s 
edition of 1780. 2 vols. 12mo, half levant morocco, yvilt 
tops, uncut. Rouen, 1880 

* One of 150 copies printed on HOLLAND PAPER. 


A CHOICE SET OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF THIS FAVORITE 
; . EDITION. 


603. WALPOLE. (HORACE, Earl of Oxford). Works. 
Illust. with numerous fine portraits. BEST 

LARGE TYPE LIBRARY EDITION. 28 vols., 8vo, handsomely 
bound by RIVIERE in new full polished calf extra, gilt tops, 
uncut. Fine set. Lond.: Bentley, v. y. 


Letters, new and best edition, with numerous additional letters 
and notes, Historicai and Biographical, edited by Peter Cun- 
ningham, and now first chronologically arranged, 9 vols., 
1859. 

Journal of the Reign of King George III., from 1771 to 1788, 
edited from the orig. MS., with notes by Dr. Doran, 2 vols., 
1859 [‘* Last Journals”’]. 

Memoirs of the Reign of George II., edited from the orig. MS,, 
by Lord Holland, 8 vols., 1846. 

Memoirs of the Reign of King George III., now first published 
from orig. MS., 4 vols, 1845. 

Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, with 
numerous orig. letters, edited by E. Warburton, 2 vols, 1851. 

Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some account of the 
principal artists. A catalogue of engravers who have been 
born or resided in England, collected by George Vertue, etc. 
Numerous portraits and plates, 3 vols. 1849. 

A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scot- 
land and Jreland, with lists of their works by the late 
Horatio Walpole, Earl of Oxford. Enlarged and continued 
by Thomas Park, with upwards of 150 fine portraits and 
plates, 5 vols., 1806. 


604. WALPOLE (HORACE). Letters chronologically 
arranged and edited with Notes and Indices by Mrs. Paget 
Toynbee. With numerous portraits and facsimiles, proofs 
on India paper. 16 vols. 8vo, buckram, uncut. 

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903-5 


* ONLY 260 COPIES PRINTED ON HANDMADE PAPER, each 
signed by the editor. Last and most complete collection of 
Walpole’s Letters, now out of print and becoming scarce. 


195 


WALTON’S OWN ANNOTATED COPY. 

605. WALTON (IZAAK). The Life of Mr. Richard 
Hooker, the Author of those learned Books of the Laws of 
ecclesiastical policy. 12mo, full crushed dark green levant 
morocco, gilt back, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, in 
chamois-lined slip case, by STIKEMAN. 

Lond.: Printed by J. G. for Rich. Morriott, 1665 


* BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH 
WALTON’S AUTOGRAPH NOTES AND CORRECTIONS throughout 
the volume. Copies of Hooker’s Life with Walton’s MS. cor- 
rections are of extreme rarity. 


WALTON’S COPY OF HIS LIVES OF DONNE, HOOKER, ETC., 
WITH CORRECTIONS IN HIS AUTOGRAPH. 


606. WALTON’S COPY. Walton (Izaak). The Lives 
of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard 
Hooker and Mr. George Herbert. . . . To which are added 
some Letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being 
in Cambridge, ete. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. With sepa- 
rate titles to each life, and the four fine portraits. 8vo, full 
calf (joints neatly repaired). Lond. 1670 


* WITH CORRECTIONS ON AT LEAST FIVE PAGES IN THE AUTO- 
GRAPH OF IZAAK WALTON. There are many other marginal 
corrections and additions in a contemporary hand, some of 
which are possibly Walton’s. If not by Walton himself they 
must have been made by some one who had an intimate 
knowledge of the author, as the corrections and additions are 
of a character that only one with such knowledge of the abbre- 
viations could possibly possess. 

This seems to have been a favorite book to annotate on the 
part of Walton; Lowndes mentions several copies. 


607. WALTON (IZAAK). The Life of Dr. Sanderson, 
late Bishop of Lincoln. To which is added, some short 
Tracts or Cases of Conscience, written by the said Bishop. 
Brilliant impression of the portrait engraved by R. White. 
8vo, full marbled calf gilt, gilt edges, by ZAEHNSDORF. 

Lond.: For Richard Marriott, 1678 


* FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE AND UNUSUALLY TALL COPY, 
WITH THE RARE LEAF OF ERRATA. 


608. WASHINGTON (GEORGE). DocuMENT sIGNED ON 
VELLUM. Admission (not filled in) into the Order of the So- 
CIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. Signed by WASHINGTON AS PRESI- 
DENT OF THE SOCIETY, also signed by Gen. Knox. Undated. 
Folio, within engraved vignette by J. J. Le Veau. Framed, 
with mat. 


609. WEBB (BENJAMIN.—Born in Braintree, Feb. 2, 
1667.) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. A quarto volume of Verse. 
83 pages, bound in half roan. UNPUBLISHED. 


* A manuscript volume of verse by a little known, or more 
probably an entirely unknown, American poet. Benjamin 
Webb, of Braintree, Mass., was born Feb. 2, 1667; married 
Susannah Ballintine, of Boston, on Nov. 21, 1693; died Oct. 5, 1739. 

The poems in the volume are like all the New England 


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poetry of the time, religious in tone. The longest poem, ‘ 
Heaven and Hell,” fills the first 28 pages. After ‘this Sieh 
“Thoughts on Time,” ‘‘Thoughts on Eternity,” and ‘Time Im- 
proved,” filling pp. 28-42, with ‘Finis’ at the end. On p. 43 
is the heading, “Occasional Reflections Poetically Formed on 
Sundry Subjects.” Among these are two that fix the date of 
writing: 

‘Reflection 4. On Carrying a Corps to ye Grave (viz. ‘ 
Belcher, Dec. 21, 1714).” es j i ee aes 

‘‘On My Birth Day; Feb. 2, 1714/15.” 


These ‘‘Occasional Reflections,” numbered from 1 to 22, are 
followed by ‘Reflections More Transient on things metaphori- 
cally us’d in ye Scriptures,” and in all fill pages 43 to 83. P. 84 
is blank. 

According to the Braintree Records, Samuel Belcher died on 
Dec. 19, 1714. Webb’s poem was written two days later and 
his two birthday poems the following February. It seems 
probable that all of the verses in the volume were written 
between 1710 and 1720. 


A FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF WHITE'S 
‘‘SELBORNE.” 


610. [WHITE (GILBERT).] The Natural History and 
Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton. 
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDN. With a fine impression of the 
large folding view of Selborne, the engraved title, and the 
other views and plates (including the bird plate), WITH 
MARGINS TOP AND BOTTOM (usually this plate is cut into). 
4to, newly and handsomely bound in full Cambridge calf 
gilt, gilt edges (probably by RIVIERE) 

Lond.: Printed by T. Bensley, 1789 


* TALL AND CHOICE Copy. Laid in are extra plates (including 
an original pencil sketch of the house in which White used to 
live), etc. The folding view contains portraits, one it is said 
being the author’s brother. 


611. ‘* WHITE’S ”—ONE OF THE Most FAMOUS OF LON- 
DON CLUBS The History of White’s, with the BETTING 
Book from 1743 to 1878, and a List of the Members from 
1736 to 1892. [By the Hon. Algernon Burke.] 2 vols. thick 
4to, original cloth, uncut. Lond.: [Privately Printed], 1892 

* Extensively illustrated with over 120 portraits of the more 
prominent members of this famous and most exclusive club, 
since its foundation, and which includes many of the important 
characters in the sporting, social, and political life of the 
periods. 

Some of the facsimiles are after rare mezzotints. Only 500 
copies of the work were printed. 


WHITNEY’S ‘‘A CHOICE OF EMBLEMS,” THE VERY RARE 
FIRST EDITION. 


612. WHITNEY (GEFFREY). Choice of Emblems, and 
other Devices, for the most parts gathered out of sundrie 
Writers, Englished and Moralized, and divers newly de- 
vised by Geffrey Whitney. A Worke adorned with varietie 


197 


of matter, both pleasant and profitable, wherein those that 

please, may finde to fit their fancies; because herein, by 

the office of the eie, and eare, the minde may reape double 

delighte through holsome precepts, shadowed with pleasant 

deuises; both fit for the virtuous to their incoraging; and 

' for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment. 

THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDN. With numerous em- 

blematice cuts. Small 4to, full crushed levant morocco, 

extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE AND SON. Imprinted at 

Leydon, in the House of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis 
Raphelengius, 1586. 

* THE FIRST ENGLISH BOOK OF EMBLEMS, AND A LARGE AND 

FINE COPY. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE LEFFERTS COPY 

(which sold for two hundred and ten dollars). THIS IS THE FIRST 

COPY TO BE OFFERED FOR PUBLIC SALE IN THIS COUNTRY. 

Mr. Douce, in his excellent work, ‘Illustrations of Shake- 


speare,” states that it was certainly known to Shakespeare. 
[See Vol. I, p. 322, and Vol. II, p. 128.] 


613. WHITTIER (JOHN G.). The Works of Whittier, 
7% vols.; together with the Life and Letters of Whittier, by 
Samuel T. Pickard, 2 vols , portraits and wllusts. 9 vols. 
post 8vo, half French crushed levant morocco, beautifully 
gilt tooled and inlaid backs, gilt tops, by the ADAMS bind- 
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cover stained). Lond.: Privately Printed, 1890 

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green, red and gold, gilt top, uncut, by ZAEHNSDORF. 

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198 


sa," - 


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617. WILLIAMS (ROGER). The Fourth Paper, Pre- 
sented by Major Butler, To the Honourable Committee of 
Parliament, for the Propagating the Gospel of Christ Jesus. 
... Together with A Testimony to the said fourth Paper, By 
way of Explanation upon the four Proposals of it. By R. W. 


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Lond.: Printed for Giles Calvert, 1652 
* This tract was identified as being by Roger Williams, i 

May, 1874, by the late Dr. J. HedatnaTeicbul, fee ae 
passed into the John Carter Brown Library. From the copy a 
reprint was made in 1903 by the Club for Colonial Reprints. 
Mr. Clarence 8. Bingham, Librarian of the Rhode Island His- 
torical Society, who edited the reprint, knew of but a single 
other copy, one in the British Museum. There is, however, a 
copy in the Church collection (formerly Leffert’s). This makes 
a fourth. No OTHERS ARE KNOWN. The book consists of title, 
one leaf, verso blank; ‘‘To the truly Christian Reader.’’ Signed 
‘¢R. W.’?’ 2 pages; ‘‘Certain Proposals,’’ pages 1-3; blank page 
[4]; ‘‘Mr. Goods Letter to Major Butler,’’ pages 5-10; text 
tA Testimony to the 4th Paper’’ pages 11-23. Though this 
text is unsigned it is proven to be by Roger Williams from two 
marginal notes: On page 13 ‘‘Of which I have spoken more 
particularly in the Hireling—Ministry &e.’?’? On page 14 ‘‘ The 
full debate of this point, may be seen in that great Controversie 

of the Bloody Tenet, between Mr. Cotton and myself. ’? 


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Judgments to come (if Repentance prevent not). Hn- 
graved title-page, containiug representations of naval and 
military engagements, etc., with the very rare leaf of poett- 
cal explanation opposite. 12mo, full erimson levant mo- 
rocco, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. 

Imprinted for Great Britain, 1628 
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and penned the above account of it. He was still under the 
stationer’s ban. No license was obtainable for this book, and 
he caused it to be printed ‘‘for Great Britaine,” at his own 

risk, and, it is said, with his own hands. 


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Ancient and Moderne; Quickened with Metricall Innvstra- 
tions, both Morall and Divine, and Disposed into Lotteries, 
that Instruction and Good Counsell may bee furthered by 
an Honest and Pleasant Recreation, by George Wither. 
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199 


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620. WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM). Lyrical Ballads, with 

a few other Poems, Lond.: Printed for J. & A. Arch, 1798, 
FIRST EDN.; also Lyrical Ballads, with other Poems, Vol. II, 
Lond.: Printed for N. Longman, 1800, FIRST EDN. To- 
gether 2 vol. small 8vo, original tree calf. In leather case. 
Lond. 1798-1800 


* FINE Copy. The first named has the LEAF OF ADVERTISEMENT 
AND ‘‘ ERRATA.” Coleridge’s beautiful poem, ‘‘ Rime of the An- 
cient Mariner,” appears in this volume for the first time, and 
three other poems were contributed by him, 

Though this book opened a new Epoch in English Poetry, it 
was at first a complete failure, owing to the onslaughts of the 
critics. 


INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM WORDSWORTH TO 
HIS DAUGHTER DORA, AND PRESENTED AND INSCRIBED 
BY HER TO LADY MONTEAGLE. 


621. WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM). The Miscellaneous 
Poems of William Wordsworth. 4 vols. 12mo, original full 
olive calf binding, backs gilt, wine labels, marbled edges. Hach 
volume inscribed by Wordsworth, ‘‘D. Wordsworth, from her 
affectionate Father.’’ Vol. I contains, further, a long in- 
seription from Dora (Wordsworth) Quillinan to her life-long 
friend, Lady Monteagle; beneath which Lady Monteagle in- 
scribes her presentation of the volumes to Laura Cecilia Mar- 
shall. [See note below. | Lond. 1820 

* As ‘‘association books’’ these volumes would claim a high 
place in any collection. Personal souvenirs of Wordsworth are 
not common; manuscripts and autographs from his hand are 
still less so, owing to the fact that the bulk of his compositions 
were dictated to his wife or sister. 

Upon the second fly-leaf of each volume occurs the inscription 
quoted above: ‘‘D. Wordsworth, from her affectionate Father,’’ 
written by the poet. In Volume I, beneath this inscription, are 
the following lines: 


‘‘This copy of my Father’s Works, the first that was my 
own, is given to Lady Monteagle, in memorial of an inherited 
and life-long friendship.’’ 

‘*Dora Quillinan. 
‘¢Rydal Mount, May 29th, 1847.’’ 


(About a month before her death). Beneath this further: 
‘‘To Laura Cecilia Marshall as the representative of her 


200. 


Mother the dear friend and Contemporary of D 114 
from M. Monteagle. porary of Dora Quillinan 


‘“ Jan. 1, 1863.”? 


Various textual emendations, in the handwriting of Words- 
worth, add great interest to this particular copy of the 1820 
Edition. In Vol. I of these are errata corrections corresponding 
to those of the printed list at the end of Vol. IV. 


Vol. I, p. xxiv, 1. 6, for described read descried; p. xxxiv. 
for consciousness read consciousnesses; p. 43, 1. 19, for dying 
read flying; p. 56, 1 12, for blind’s read blind; p. 101, 1. 13, 
for dwe read dwell. In twelve instances errata have not been 
corrected, in this volume; and on the other hand three important 
textual alterations are found; p. 199, stanza iii. for ‘‘She 
passed her time; and in this way’’ read, ‘‘ And passing thus the 
livelong day;’’ and for ‘‘Grew up to Woman’s height,’’ read 
‘‘She grew to Woman’s height;’’ p. 216, 1. 4, for ‘‘beauty’s 
bloom?’’ read ‘‘vernal bloom?’’; p. 219, 1. 9, for this read 
that. In the line following, an entirely new reading is afforded, 
one which has not been used: for ‘‘For this the passion to 
excess was driven—read ‘‘The sacred passion to excess was 
driven—.’’ In the poem ‘‘Laodamia’’ the accent is pencilled 
over the penult of that name, a hint afterwards accepted by 
printers. 


Vol. II, p. 202, 1. 15, for ‘‘by strong admonishment’’ read 
““by apt admonishment,’’ a reading subsequently accepted; 
p- 208, 1. 16, for ‘‘The Heap that’s like an infant’s grave,’’ 
read, as subsequently printed, ‘‘The Hillock like an infant’s 
grave.’’ (In the correction Wordsworth has saved the ‘‘H’?’ of 
the ‘‘Heap’’ and corrected in ‘‘illock’’—giving occasion for a 
smile at the expense of his well-known distaste for wielding pen 
or pencil.) Page 210, 1. 5, for ‘‘ ’Tis said, her lamentable 
state’’ read ‘‘ Alas, her, etc.,’’ a suggestion accepted in the next 
(1827) edition; none of the errata listed have been corrected in 
Vols. III, IV, and V. 


There is a graceful stanza of Southey’s, occurring in Vol. II 
of the 10-vol. edition of his Poems, which is therein dated 1828, 
at ‘‘Lowther Castle,’’ the place where he and Wordsworth and 
other friends were so often entertained by Lord and Lady Lons- 
dale. In the introduction to this edition R. 8. observes: ‘‘Of 
the smaller pieces in this collection there is scarcely one concern- 
ing which I cannot vividly call to mind when and where it was 
composed. ’’ 

The above citation stands to this effect: That upon the last 
blank leaf of Vol. III of Dora Wordsworth’s set of her father’s 
poems, in a hand which is believed from such comparisons with 
autographs and facsimiles, to be the writing of Robert Southey, 
appears the poem in question, as follows: 


IMITATED FROM THE PERSIAN. 


Lord, who art merciful as well as just, 
Incline thine ear to me, a child of dust! 
Not what I would, O Lord, I offer thee, 
Alas! but what I can. 
Father Almighty, who has made me man, 
And bade me look to heaven, for thou art there, 
Accept my sacrifice and humble prayer. 
Four things, which are not in thy treasury, 
I lay before thee, Lord! with this petition, 
My nothingness, my wants, 
My sins, and my contrition. 
R. 8. Oct., 1826. 


If this poem be, as in all probability it is, in the handwriting 
201 


of Southey, it affords an exception to the rule of Southey’s 
memory. ‘‘I have perfect recollection,’’ he says, ‘‘of the spots 
where many, not of the scenes only, but of the images which I 
have described from nature, were observed and noted.’’ In the 
MS. as indicated above, the poem is dated two years before the 
date ascribed to it by the author in his printed edition. 

The fragrant memories and poetical associations clinging to 
these volumes lift them far above the ordinary ‘‘ presentation 
set.’’ The tender affection of Wordsworth for the daughter to 
whom, at the age of one month, was addressed one of his most 
beautiful blank-verse poems, and whose late marriage to Captain 
Quillinan was the only cloud—and that a passing one—upon his 
happiness in her, ‘‘Moving untouched in silver purity’’—this 
affection here finds tangible expression, and is handed down a 
legacy of ‘‘silver purity’’ in concrete and visible form. 


622. WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM). Poetical Works. A 
new Edition. Engraved portrait. 6 vols. 12mo, newly and 
handsomely bound in three-quarter blue morocco extra, gilt 
backs, gilt top. Lond.: E. Moxon, 1857 


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